It's about time we change.

I absolutely have no idea how I’ve become so slothful but summers tend to spoil me! Oh you know how it goes, the months long vacations, the beautiful colors, the bright sun (Though it gets really annoying in this desert, I can fry an egg on my head after stepping out for 10 minutes literally!), the tempting new flavors of ice cream and so much more! All in all, a beautiful encounter. So yeah, I finally decided to write something and here I am! Ever looked at your parents and wondered how do they exactly do this and by this I mean, office. Get up in the morning, spend 7 to 9 hours in a closed cubicle with no source of entertainment what so ever and repeat it the next day again (Such a boring routine!) This summer bought me the experience of working in an office environment and believe me; I couldn’t handle it for a month! But it was an experience I know I wouldn’t forget. Some days I got up all excited to go to work and when the pressure built and the work load increased, I wanted to just curl up in my bed and sleep. So easily said and done by us teenagers, isn’t it? But on a very serious note, step into your mothers or fathers shoes for a day and see it from their point of view, if they took work as casually as we did, how would they take care of us? Give us all the luxuries in the world there is, everything we ask for us is given to us. Don’t you think it is time we take things seriously too? They as parents have responsibilities, taking care of us for years, seeing us grow into humans that change the world is the only dream they have. All they want is to see us smile and we, so careless and carefree, never care to ask them how they are, if things are good with them. Appreciate them for all they have done for us. Something that really hit me while doing this internship was that our parents work so hard to earn the money they spend on our tuition fee and we don’t have the courtesy to study for them, if not for us. Imagine what would be going in that parent’s head whose son failed a year, who was so rebellious, who was so arrogant. His son wouldn’t have realized the pain his father is going through because of the money that just went down the drain. Now as a teenager, a child, you wouldn’t realize the worth of the money that he is paying ALL OVER AGAIN, just to fund your education, so that one day you fund his medicines. So why not just study, what else do we have to do in life right now that is so much more important than making our parents happy? Your social life? If that’s the answer to the question I just asked, then please slap yourself or wait, I’m coming with my chappal. Your social life is just a phase, which will end eventually, you definitely wouldn’t be going for parties when you 55 and then let me know how many friends from your “oh-so-great social life” are sitting next to you in the hospital. Just day before yesterday I was reading a chapter in a book called ‘Angels and Demons’ by Dan Brown, a lot of you must have heard of it and a lot more of you must have read it, a line from that entire book is the only thing that still lingers in my brain, imagine how much impact that line had on me then! Dan Brown expressed beautifully, “Nothing attracts human attention than human tragedy.” This line isn’t relevant to anything I just mentioned above in my rant, but I still wanted to share it and close my post with this. It might not be relevant to what I said above, but it is definitely relevant to how life is today. Think about it.