It's quite baffling to think how badly we do things that we are not aware of. There are few things we do without which we can't even imagine our life just like sleeping, reading, drinking, eating etc. If I move one step upward there are things like meditating, focusing, communicating, which are a little deeper or psychological sort of things. But the problem is nobody has taught us how to do them in the best way possible. We do them in our own arbitrary ways which yield mostly unproductive outcomes.
It's funny how our parents & teachers insist us to read & get education in schools & colleges, without teaching us about the primary demand of education; which is "LEARNING." Nobody has taught us "How to learn?" or "How to focus ?" while study. So students are struggling to focus even after becoming a graduate.
Talking about health, every parent expect their children to stay healthy all the time without even teaching them the basic art of taking care of one's health. So when they become adults some acquire a giant & fat body shape & some are like threads. There are barely few percentage of people in India who know about what food to eat in morning & what not; how to drink water in best way ; how important it is to do exercise & meditation on a daily basis or how important is reading books for a fulfilling life.
So who is responsible for this personal crisis ? Our parents ? Our teachers ? or the system ? or we personally ? My answer is that all 4 are responsible up to some extent. Our parents & teachers are responsible because they personally don't have the necessary education & awareness of those few basic skills which act as a pre requisite for mastering the usual advanced level skills.
Our system is responsible for not daring to experiment with a new educational strategy in schools that includes these basic skills that students can learn & master. Finally, we are responsible because despite identifying & understanding their role we have not shown the requisite intent to work on them & to improve them using our all possible gifted technology. We are simply complaining why something's don't work out without finding the root cause that creates the whole damn problem.
Now without indulging much on the things we have missed it would be better to look for a way that can bring us the treasures we have not received yet. In order to fix the problems, we should not waste much time on our teachers & parents while convincing them the down & upside of the situation. It would take a lot time. So it is unwise. So better if we could find a way to change our system.
Starting from primary till matric, there must be a revised curriculum that includes some basic skills & it has to be made mandatory to conduct exams on them so that students don't take them carelessly. Secondly, we, as youth, must shift our focus from achieving high salary jobs to mastering these basic skills that would somehow open up a new frontier for us in future. And of course, a good salary job would also follow us automatically.
The additional benefits of learning those skills personally is that, after we become parents we too can teach our children about things that we were not blessed to get from our parents. So let's welcome this change to walk our path into a glorious future that make us productive as an individual & fulfilling as a human being.
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