The Best?

Back at it. Why? Because people assumed.

Life is uncertain. Life is difficult. Life is fast. But what if there isn't a life?

All this time as a kid and now as a teenager, I was told to study. To procure all the resources I need, to survive in the future. But only economically. No one even considered the natural or any other spectrum of life. Just do what you have to till you make enough money.

My question is what happens of that money if there is no life?

Last year started a completely unpredictable journey of continuous intense tussle. Tussle against a tiny little germ. A tiny little germ that wrecked the world and still progresses to do so. While that happens, basically everyone proceeds to struggle a sort of struggle which is different for everyone. Which keeps on evolving itself into something different. But the contemplation which stays is, how did this happen?

This is a question to all the ones before us. The ones who are more experienced. The ones who have seen the world.

To the ones elder to us.

When a child is born, I don't think they know what type of world they are stepping in. But the minute they start growing up, the minute they start understanding this world - you stab a liability on them. While they try to blossom and grow, you throw them into a sea of guilt for something they haven't even done. Questioning them about the problems of their when they are still trying to discern your world.

We go to schools. The temples of education. A place where we learn, we flourish, we develop. But under pressure. The pressure of being the best. Not good, not okay, the best. As much as you may think you're not doing what your ancestors did, you still continue to scrutinize our thought-process with yours. According to which, in the words of an unknown screenwriter, "Life is a race." But oh well, I am sorry. I don't remember stamping my thumb on a document as an infant - evidencing my participation in this race. I know competition forces us to do our best but why does it have to be a competition always? People believe in the logical notion that competition leads to improvement but many forget that the competition is required to be healthy and not a place where someone's performance is the statement of their calibre. Do you know what happens when someone's constantly forced to be their best? One day, they decide to not try to be the best and eventually, they give up. And I think the statistics are enough to prove that.

I mean, even in today's absolutely banana world where people are dying, environment is crumbling, end is coming closer and what not, a student needs to be politically informed, socially aware, economically sustained, academically intelligent- excuse me? I don't remember signing up for this. Seriously again, I don't remember stamping my thumb on an official statement as an infant which said, "You are required to 'grow up' at the age 14." Again, I know very well that these certain trials, runs and activities are to make us known to what the future beholds and prepare us but I think in the thought of 'preparing' us, people forget that we're only teens. That too of this advanced crazy world which is kind of a mess, to be honest. Hence, this mess is basically what led to us being emotionally unstable, socially awkward and politically scared.

We are not old enough but old enough.

Imagine how enervating that is in the current world. In a world where we see right and wrong, understand right and wrong but where we just can't stop the wrong. But the irony that, despite all the above facts, shines through like a lost piece of gold jewelry in this dark coloured sand type of world is that we still come through to protect ourselves. We still accept where we stand. We still try to make things better. We conceal what we feel to fit your standards. Standards that are just meaningless.

This world given to you by your ancestors was a little bit indifferent but the world you will leave for us will be chaotic and more than just a little bit indifferent for sure. Our future selves already have so much work on our hands and with all the pressure on us - I can assure you that nothing will be possible. I know it must've been difficult for you to grow up in a strict hierarchy of chauvinism and bigotry where men had to be strong and women had to take care of the kids but you need to understand that it's not easy for us to live in a world where we're not allowed to be us with no judgment, where a degree is all that matters, where everyone wants a child prodigy of some field in their houses. Skies of dreams await to be explored while we give into your pressure. Times have changed but one thing hasn't and it is the pressure. The pressure to be the best. Not good, not okay, but the best.