The small little gap

The world constantly changes by changing the people who live within. Unfortunately, there are phases, gaps and varied generations that it fails to change. It serves both as the virtues and vices of the modern or the world that lies ahead. Virtue as in history repeats itself, what happened shall happen again, and the experienced people shall guide our way forward. Vice as in it stunts the growth, the minds, and the ideas that can change the world when the same people remain adamant to the temporary principles that once helped them. No doubt, some principles are timeless and eternal because of their varied applicability time and again. It requires an extremely high innate understanding between the people of different generations – veterans and novices, classics and modern, accomplished and the prodigy only then can we prosper with the same harmony which we were meant to. Mistakes happen, by them and by us but it only can benefice us if we can, without any ego or blames, accept those and add those small learnings into the reality of life. The liveliest example is the gap between your parents and you. Whilst taking a decision or just trying to make them understand something, we often try to impose our learnings and way of living on them and they do the same with us. I’ve seen people who almost get sentimental when there are certain opportunities and choices for them but their parents forcibly make them follow what they believe. They do the same with their kids what their fathers did to them, snatch their child’s freedom. And then there are parents who understand how they weren’t able to be their best because they were left with no choice and grant their children that space and freedom they lacked in their life. Mine lie in the latter. Unfortunately, such people are scarce, they need to understand that the conditions have changed now and is a lot more complex than the way they had experienced it 20 years back. They need to understand that new ideas brew in the minds of the young and should harbor them instead of claiming it non sense. They should believe in their own sons and daughters and guide them at the same time. They should know the difference between guidance and obligation, so that the child feels that he is not controlled and at the same time being backed by their parents in case they lose the path or choose the wrong ones. In return we should respect our parent’s opinions and try to explain the genuine things which we think they should know. At the end, give them love, they always love you back, so that slowly and steadily we shall end the small little gap.            

Posted by Aditya