If youth is the near future, what changes are they urging for?

Save Young Lives.

Anecdotes to suggest the extent of darkness:

1. Arjun Bharadwaj, A management student.
   Arjun Bharadwaj, a 24-year-old management student, commits suicide by jumping out of a 19th-floor hotel room in Mumbai. Media reporting suggests that he has been depressed about failure in exams and has been talking about ending his life, repeatedly on social media. Additionally, there are suggestions that he was also battling drug addiction.
2. Sikkim, India’s third richest state.
   Sikkim, India’s third-richest state (after Delhi and Chandigarh), by per capita income with its literacy rate being the seventh highest records the second-highest unemployment rate. About 27% of the state’s suicides so far have been attributed to unemployment andsuch tendencies have been found to be most common among those between 21-30 years of age.

                                                                 (Ref: www.hindustantimes.com)

If results of the recent studies are to be believed, it comes as a shock that very soon suicide will be a major cause of mortality in India. Suicide has become the simplest way to get rid of a problem. Today's youth don't have time to wait, they need instinctual solutions even for the most complex problems. That being the case they lose hope and end-up opting for a strong step of giving up on their lives.

The question that arises here is Why? Why has the youth got so restless? Why are they taking
such deadly steps? Whose shortcomes are these??
Parents? Society? Education system? Or those great grand values that we give to our children?

PROPER PARENTING

Mentoring children begins with being with them and accompanying them closely in their journey towards exploring this world as well as towards knowing themselves. So are Parents doing their duty faithfully?
As a child, they aren't heard properly whatever the issue is and are advised to not repeat the same, again with a contemptuous attitude. Such tendencies impart a trust deficit in the child and parent relation and as a whole parenting gets compromised. Moreover, with time this very deficit expands itself and such developments shape a child's mental, emotional as well as professional afterlife.
Also parents these days easily give in to their wards' demands without realizing how it can lead them to a dangerous trap, because later it will become difficult to stop the endless wants! There's no gainsaying the fact that parents and elders need to be children's true guides. Children, usually in their teenage years, need proper guidance and support to develop a realistic self-image for enjoying their life ahead with confidence and self-esteem.
Emotional intelligence is very low among young adults nowadays. In India, a child usually gets loaded with expectations of its parents that primarily irritates the child & further leads to quick & aggressive responses. Self-judgment and emotional maturity need to be imparted in the youth & the same can be done in school/ colleges that are primarily “the temples of knowledge".

EDUCATION SYSTEM
Education is one of the basic needs of every human being. But is the education system performing its role adequately?
Present education system in India functions no more than an "information center" that burdens children with information overload. The careless attitude of parents and educators with regard to a child's social knowledge is the worst offense. One being the parent or educator is responsible to teach a child to cope with the complex situations that they may face in near future. How to deal with rejection and how to build a healthy & competitive environment among
themselves.
“Climb over and crush the other" philosophy is ruining our youth, be it a student or an employee. Everyone’s busy in a race of becoming the best or getting those big gold trophies in their hall. Is this the real meaning of education! To be the best in everything?? No! Not at all…The real meaning of education is to get proper knowledge of a particular subject or this world. Knowledge about what this world is all about and prepare one’s brain to be an innovative person. To get a healthy mind that can fight any odds and get out of it with the best solutions ever. Those certificates and trophies are not going to make you what you are in yourself. Our youth needs to discover themselves . It is the need of the hour to build strong emotional endurance and perseverance & scholarly education is incomplete without strong emotional backup, in itself. Our education system is such that instead of producing leaders it is producing workers.
Philomena George, a teacher of English and History in Mumbai, lambasts the present educational system that lacks a holistic approach to education in India. She says ," According to the present education system students are compelled to focus on getting through the academic aspects and not so much on excelling in the five aspects of life like mental, psychological, emotional, spiritual and social. What is pathetically missing in our new education system is an all- inclusive approach to learning.
Mahatma Gandhi, father of our nation,has stressed so much on the formation of the 3 H’s i.e.,
Head, Heart and Hand."
The researchers have rightly suggested that India should start mental health awareness programmes for young people in schools/ colleges and introduce crisis counseling services and services for treatment of depression as well as alcohol and drug addiction.

SOCIETY
You all must be familiar with the sentence " log kya kahenge" from your parents or your grandparents!!...But has anyone ever thought about who those people are??...We must have heard such a statement whenever we take a step apart from the social rules and regulations or the so common, pathetic & useless thoughts. This is all just because Our parents don't want to face any sort of embarrassment in the society because of their different decisions and hence they are afraid of society and save their reputation in the society. Is this the place that we want to live in?

Society is made of us....We people make society and it is in our hands to mold its thoughts and to change the old rules that stop us from living our dreams. The society supports in public but pulls back when one starts one's very first steps of flight of success....Since we are the building blocks of our society it's our responsibility to renew it & SAVE YOUNG LIVES. Today’s youth want to fulfill their dreams but parental and societal pressure stop them from doing so,
helplessly. They give up & the last option left to them is taking up their life. We as a society need to understand others' feelings and prospects of living and should support the evolution and change occuring in the society.

We take pride in calling ourselves a democracy of the young. But apart from our family relations, what chunk of our youth is given the opportunity to govern? Only the privileged ones get such an opportunity. It's high time that we change our norms of democracy. It's the time for us to give our youth an opportunity to prove themselves today, & not keep them waiting for the elusive tomorrow.
As it is usually said ,"Tomorrow belongs to you- the youth". The youth must take responsibility for today because tomorrow is too distant.

MORALITY
Basic education that we get in our life is usually Moral education that we get from our family since childhood. There's also a subject called Moral Value added in our primary education where we are taught about the values of life and how to be kind ,honest, and helpful to others. But the thing that we lack is that there is no school to teach a child what to do or how to behave when he feels lonely or When a child or a person feels distressed, where to go, whom to say! There is no way out. Not a single person understands their mental pain and emotions. The person doesn't find any possible way to deal with rejection and failure.
In schools, colleges as well as family everyone focuses on celebrating victories but no one talks about failures. What to do if one fails? This is one of the major cause of stress, depression and suicide in youth. The values we have been taught come to an end when we find ourselves helpless just because of those very values. Moral values should bind a person in emotions, it should teach people to be a real human being in all respects.
Since childhood we are taught not to reply back to our elders, boys are taught not to cry or feel low. Are these the real morals??.... Shouldn't we answer to an older person doing wrong or shouldn't a boy cry when he feels to. Isn't the boy a human being? Don't they feel pain? There's an urge to recheck our moral values and understand it properly again. So that whenever someone feels trapped in such a situation then he/she can probably find a way out. And no suicides take place in India.

YOUTH!!! SINCE WE ARE THE FUTURE WE NEED TO CHANGE IT AND SAVE YOUNG
LIVES.

!!FEEL FREE LIVE FREE!!

Questions: 

1. Why is the youth so depressed and restless to take such deadly decisions?
2. Who is responsible for the increased suicide rate in India?
3. Are society, parents and the Education system doing their duties adequately?
4. Is there any possible way out?
5. If the youth is the near future, what changes are they urging for?