Daily Post 1299
ENSURING FUTURE
The world has been busy ensuring its future much more than the earlier generations with relative prosperity happening and life started to become easy with the onset of digital technology and more and more comforts getting added onto it. Education and life both gained notoriety that it could be manipulated by money and resources. That there should be no pain involved in the whole process of education has been the sine qua non of our existence. What was earlier called hard work was started to be termed as stress, tension and unnecessary embarrassment at times.
A sense of entitlement had permeated deep into the system, that they were the deserving of those benefits or perks, treated as birthrights. Whether you studied or not, parties, weekends and holidays have to be regular features of your existence. Social media was replete with such escapades by people who would have rather done without it. It seemed as if only this generation worked, the earlier ones being on a permanent joy ride. On the other hand we were reaping the fruits of what they had done for us; may it technology, facilitate upgrading quality of living or even good medical facilities.
While we busy ensuring our and our children’s future, the companies made grand plans, inclusive of the start ups, of billion dollar enterprises even before they start. One or two odd successes were being declared as the norm the world over. The reality is organic growth will remain a basic fact of life as long as life remains on this planet. In the process whether students, youngsters or companies were not being taught life skills nor where they interested in learning it. You a can barely ensure what you know of, no way you can do for things which could not have been even on your radar of imagination.
Force majeure as a clause in all the agreements one would not even remember of, something not in your control; act of God, terrorism, war, plagues etc. How many times this clause has been been invoked, nobody has ever done a study. That there would be no force majeure in our life, nobody had assured us. We decided to give this assurance to our children and businesses. Today, we are in the midst of the worst force majeure in the known history of mankind when students, youngsters, professionals and lot of other groups are groping in the dark for their next step. When you are not accustomed to facing crisis, one of this kind can be totally unnerving.
LIFE SKILLS SHOULD BE TAUGHT / LEARNED THE FIRST TO ENSURE OUR FUTURE.