Path Breaking Problems

            Dear Friendz, I am staying in Hyderabad during this summer 2012-2013 for my holidayz. Over here I got an opportunity to address young people of our Campus and around. Well they are about 35 of them, of which the boys were in minority. I just wish to pen down the sum and substance of my interaction with those youngsters.

            It is always interesting to have an interaction with the young people of current generation. One of the reasons could be their multiple dimension of mindset and varied interests of habits and what not. Therefore without much thinking I  agreed to interact with them.

            Today, young  people are in a way like moving machines and magics. Because they think that they can move all, on speed and instant. As a result they also wish and desire to have things immediately and move things instantly. This tells us that they (youngsters) have no time to waste in thinking and reflecting. We can see this mindset even in the market terminology 'Instant Coffee',  'Fast Foods', 'Fast Track' and etc. 

            I am reminded of the person who goes to the church for a favor from God. He asks God, "Dear please give me the gift of patience but immediately." This exactly the attitude to the current generation. May be may not be.  But what is my concern is to make the (youth) to  think about what they are thinking about their attitude. So, we must focus on our attitude and mind set in all our decisions and the circumstances. If not we may also end up our life just like the person  who asked God for the gift of patience but on condition of immediacy.

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