I have no idea why I wrote this. A lazy evening with nothing to do might instigate one to do something crazy, and here is my version:
Children:
A child is prone to a lot of problems during childhood.
But, one thing protects it from all of that, innocence. Innocence is what
makes a child throw tantrums, be mischievous and cause loads of trouble. Innocence also makes the child an easy prey to all the negative energy flowing
around. A child can turn into a social menace and subsequently into a pedophile
or a rapist or a murderer. A person's characteristics are molded at a very
tender stage. At such an age, a child's soul is not corrupted by any of the
worldly pleasures or whims. It is pure and unadulterated. If proper care is
given to each and every aspect of a child's growth, he/she can be made into a
genuine and an honest person who is of great help to the society as a whole.
Ironically, a society requires all kinds of people. If it
is a cluster of people with the same mindset, there will be absolutely no
differentiation between any of them and the whole concept of good and bad will
just cease to exist. If every child in a society is brought up in such a way
that he is polite, well-mannered and happy all the time, the society will cease
to judge right from wrong. Therefore, it must have a constant mix of all kinds
of people. The war between good and bad will never end. If it does, the entire
world, which runs on the balance of the evil by the good, will just collapse.
Nature loves symmetry. If there is any force which tries
to obliterate symmetry, there will be imbalance, which leads to a collapse in
each and every strata of life; A domino effect. Peace and harmony can only be
meaningfully perceived in an area when violence and destruction occurs in the
same area. There is no peace without war. Hence, equality must be prevalent in
every chasm of life.
The concept of symmetry can also be gently extrapolated
to children. Children need to perceive every feeling. At a very young age, a
child may not pursue a particular thing if told not to. But, at a later point
of time in life, their curiosity gets the better of them. Children tend to make
hasty decisions or even do things in haste, hindering their development
throughout their life. Proper channelising of their thoughts and urges must be
put into effect than just trying to suppress them, provoking their curiosity even
more.
A general assessment shows that a person is incapable of
deciding a majority of things in life on their own. An opinion by one close to
him/her or a third party is generally necessary to make things come to a
closure. The human brain, being so fickle almost all the time can never be
trusted to remain the same throughout (the thinking processes that is). A
parent generally feels and experiences every aspect of human life and hence
their decisions and thoughts will be way more stable than a general adolescent.
A child learns a lot during childhood. Whatever it learns
at that time, is never unlearned, it remains vivid in the child's memory
forever. Disasters during childhood is something which the child will find very
difficult to forget, they keep haunting him throughout his life, perhaps
changing the way the child looks at things right from the beginning. A person's
life heavily depends on his childhood. Childhood may not be beautiful for
everyone, but, it just needs to be sensible enough for the child to break free
of its protective cocoon when the time is right. The different stages of a
child's growth are sectioned through three age stages:
Age 1-5:
The child is barely conscious of the world. It is like an
animal at this stage. It only has the basic needs: Food, shelter and care. It
cannot perceive the care in an emotional way but can understand that it is
secure and it curls up into that cocoon.
During this age, learning is involuntary. All the primal senses of the child
are high and they are always turned on. The child therefore learns to
smell-recognise, see-recognise, hear-recognise and feel-recognise objects and
people. This remains in the memory of the child throughout his/her life,
forming a permanent, indestructible memory.As the child nears the age of 1, the major hurdle it crosses
is dexterity. It starts to develop trust on its own self to obtain perfect
balance, putting itself to more difficult tasks, letting our occasional cries
of dissatisfaction till it masters the task. That is when it brims with
emotion- happiness.
Age 5-10:
It is said that during period is when a child's creative
skills are its best. A child artist in cinema, a painter or a cricketer finds
his field of non-academic interest during this age. This is when the child
starts to trust his creativity to become better in life. Many cases of failure
occur, throwing an open test of one's self confidence. Once that barrier is
crossed, growth takes place in an exponential manner.
Age 10-15:
This age span is the most challenging span for a parent
more than it is for a child. A parent feels the weight of the child's fickle
mindedness and overpowering desire to burst out at every single moment. The
child is not open to advice during this time and starts to understand his/her
body better.
The age span of 10-13 is one which is most tantalizing
for a parent. Creativity and self-confidence reach its peak and the child
starts to argue and oppose every single thing the parent says. The parent in
turn loses self-control and vents their anger back at the child, leading to
hatred and pain along with loads of remorse and suffering.
Childhood is not a dream; it is just a learning platform.
It is never as beautiful as people think it is. It is an age in which we are
relatively exposed to way more brutalities of nature than we are as we grow up,
but we just don’t feel it much as we aren't literally in our senses during our
childhood.
