Dear,
Young Citizens,
Warm Greetings!
Yes I said “Young Citizens” to the boys and girls
who are in their teen age, with guess that most of you are under eighteen years,
NEET aspirants. I also guess that probably I am the first one who might have
addressed with the word citizen. I did so because I believe most of the time
our socio-political and cultural system do not consider person below eighteen
years of age to be the citizen of country (off course constitutionally you are)
. This does not mean you are not Indian. You are Indian too like any other
person who is above eighteen but there remain several issues unaddressed by
systems for the persons who are under eighteen years of age and said to be
children. That is why it is necessary that we should use word citizens for all
irrespective of the age. We consider children to be fragile so we do not load
them with responsibility, we don’t remind them for any kind of duty.
So, may I ask what is
your responsibility (if there is any), towards your family, society nation and
most importantly towards yourself? If you have not thought yet then think
before if it’s too late for this age. One thing we must understand that in each
age group we have some untold responsibility and that has to be delivered in
that frame of time. Once you cross your age for certain things you won’t get
second chance for that.
Most of you are away
from home and preparing for NEET, even if some of you reading this at home are
not entirely at different position and in different situations. So I was saying
about your responsibility. Did you get to know what’s that by the time you read
it in upper lines and reached till here? If you did not thought yet then let me
remind you are a preparatory student who is liability on the family, society
and on Nation too. A lot of efforts are invested on you people by your family
and institutions. You need to return back in the form of NEET AIR. Your most important
duty is to deliver preparation with optimum calibre, commitment, and time
management. Once you get through NEET you have performed your duty for which
you have been responsible during those years of preparations.
Why it was necessary
for me to start talking with the word citizens, duty, responsibility and all
and ending with your results? It is because various forces are working on you
to not let you perform your duty well and fail at the end. These forces are
your surroundings. Surroundings include your smart phone, your roommate, your
mess environment, your leisure period in coaching and if not the last but least
your last minutes before you fall asleep. All these elements matter together
for you during phase of preparation. These must be healthy, constructive and
focused towards your goals.
Do your surroundings
drag you to the discussion which is not important for your subject? Like what
is going on in political system of our country, what is happening in Bollywood,
which institute is best for NEET or else what is there to gossip about a girl
on whom your best friend has crush. If you are engaged in such talks in your
leisure time then trust me you are not being entertained rather you are being
distracted from your mind which has learned something new in last few hours
before your gossip. You are pushing your mind to forget what you studied in
last few hours. Getting entertainment should involve only those activity which
is one sided, means there should not be any further discussion on it with your
friends. Like watching movie sometimes and ending it in theatre itself. Treat
yourself with some delicious foods and desserts.
But involving in
discussion which often leads to arguments disturb so badly that sometimes you
don’t even feel why you are not able to focus on study. Trust me it is
worthless to discuss on surgical strike and demonetization. Your opinion are
not being heard by anyone other than your friends and do not matter for them
too. You are not preparing for UPSC or you are not student of political science
or let it be journalism. To correct you, you are not college student that you
need be political neither you are expected be political. You will get your
opportunity for that once you are in medical college where you can have
ideology for anything or everything. Besides college curriculum you must be
political but you need to reach there first.
Avoid talks and debate
in your room, mess and in leisure of coaching. I know every things reaches you
by social media but not that actually should reach to you. Several apps reminds
you much of the information daily but none reminds you anything before you fall
asleep about the content that you read each day. No apps are there for revision
just before you sleep, because no apps can read your mind while you are reading
your textbooks.
So my young friends you
have to do it by yourself, just minute before you fall asleep to remind what
you have read entire day. You also need to tell your mind before sleeping about
your tomorrow’s target of syllabus. Sleeping without thinking what you have
read is like travelling without tickets. You can be fined if you are caught or
else you are lucky if you are not caught by TTE. So don’t be dependent on luck
because it always favours the prepared minds.
This is all for the
day. Be focused and be cool.
Thank you
Nalin Maurya
Counsellor-social
worker
