The new era or the new degradation??
“Happy
Birthday to you” chortled a bunch of girls merrily as I entered into a
restaurant located in the very heart of the city of Guwahati. As I sat down on
my table, just opposite to the girls, I was thunderstruck. All the girls were
hardly aged 12-13 years and all of them were dressed in mini skirts, hot
shorts, high heels. And when I glanced at their faces, I felt short for words.
These young girls had their eyebrows shaped, heavily made up eyes and huge
amount of dark lipstick!!!
Looking
at these young kids and their body language, I thought “How did the innocence
of these young girls get lost?” Their faces did not reveal the slightest hint
of cuteness that children their age possess, rather they appeared to be like
some models walking on the ramp.
Is
that what our society has come to today? Yes, we are heading towards moral
degradation my friends. We no longer treat our girl kids as cute, innocent
angels and try to nourish them with good values. Is it really necessary for a
12 year old girl to get her eyebrows shaped? At such a tender age those soft
cheeks of the girls should have glowing with happiness and innocence. Rather,
the inherent glow of those rosy cheeks were masked by huge amount chemical products
called ‘make up.’ Wasn't it supposed to be bad for their skin??
Young
kids are lured my media, peer pressure and other temptations. They are young.
They don’t know how to differentiate between the good and the bad. That’s where
the responsibility of the parents and elders comes. It really makes me get
goose bumps to even imagine about parents who allow such kind dresses and make
up for their tender aged daughters!! It is their duty to teach their kids,
inculcate good values in them and keep a check on their development.
But
unfortunately, today we have reached a stage where children see their parents
only in the evening coming back from work and then sitting on their laptops and
in the mornings rushing for their offices. Parents today are so busy with their
office work that they hardly have time for their kids, let alone monitor their
development. And what is happening to the kids? They are engaging themselves in
these materialistic pleasures as a part of their recreation and enjoyment. And
this is not just the case of one family; majority of the families nowadays have
both the parents working and hence have no time to spend with their kids
Another
factor that plays a role in this regard is the “Desire to keep up with the rest of the world”. And this rest of the
world mainly includes the Western world. This desire leads to the same kind of moral
degradation on 2 levels-
1. Children want to keep up in
fashion and latest trends
2. Parents don’t want their kids to be tagged as “Behenjis” and “Backward”
And
when we let our children do these things, have we ever imagined the long-term
consequences? What do we want our daughters to be when they grow up? Before
listing out the “professions” on our wish list as parents for our kids, don’t
we want them first and foremost to be good human beings?
It
is the duty of all parents especially the mothers to develop good values in
children. Young children are the builders of a future nation. What kind of
nation do we want our children to build – a materialistic one or a good
one? Lets ponder over this fact guys –
today it’s just a bunch of young girls, tomorrow it will spread to her younger
sisters. Lets ask ourselves - Is keeping up with the society so important that hume apni
bachhiyo ki maasumiyat ko bhi chhupani par rahi hai (we have to veil the
charm and grace of our tender daughters)??
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