As Covid lessens, on-line teaching at home on a dining table or the bedroom bed is coming to an end. The real school in class room is about to happen.
The world is governed by cause and effect. Everything has a cause. People give various reasons why some students are failures or do not attain high percentage like others. Some say that students fail because there is lack of authority in the family — a ‘chalta hai’ attitude; but they never authoritatively utter, ‘nahim chelega, nahim chelega’. This is because some parents, child’s opinion matters, thereby allowing the children to set their own rules. So, they tramp the streets and spend their time in bad company and face temptations such as drug addiction and alcoholism and often end as dropouts. It is like the effect of one rotten mango placed between good ones. A family is the unit of society. Most our feelings or ways of thinking are built up in our family and hence the deterioration first starts in the family and then it penetrates into the society. So, such attitude or thoughts can be your blessing or curse.
Several people are of the opinion that children neglect their studies because of the family atmosphere is in search of happiness with picnics, birthday bash of young and old relatives and also celebrations without any reason. But all such pleasures of merry dancing, drinking, and laughing lasts only for two days. But youngsters, before such junkets, spend precious time in preparation for the event; then after the social gathering, it taken days for teenagers to come back to their normal study environment from such a get-together. Therefore, such students do not attain high percentage in their final exam.
“What one sows, one reaps,” goes the saying; just as a farmer takes a handful of grains to sow and then reaps a harvest, similarly, student’s decisive thoughts act as sowing of seeds which a learner reaps on the result day. This story confirms it all. A father had two sons. They lived in a single room. The father used to come home drunk every day and watch TV, disturbing his children at study time. The elder son concentrated on his studies while the younger son followed in father’s footsteps. When they grew up, the elder boy got an award for excellence as a citizen of the town while the younger son was imprisoned for a petty crime. When they were interviewed, the elder son said, “I was determined to be different. The younger son said, “I became like this because of my father, who created a bad atmosphere at home.” Dear reader, we should not blame the parents. We need to take responsibility for our own actions. Yes, thought starts in the mind and then comes out into reality.
Many students have a dream but some are hopeless dreamers. In order to achieve one’s dream, one must have desire, dedication and determination. Rabindranath Tagore said, “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” One should prepare a plan of action. There can be no victory with mere intentions.
