FROM THE EDITOR

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