You, my dear, your potential !
You remember this scene. Right?
If you are an Indian child in their teens belonging to an average earning family, you already know what I mean.
No doubt parents are always great, be it India’s or any of any country. Parents are parents. They love you, and they want better for you. They sacrifice their chapati so that you can be full; they sacrifice their new clothes so that you can be updated with the trend; they use a low-end phone but will gift your smart-phone so that you can be at ease; they will sacrifice their blanket so that you can feel the warmth.
If you're an Indian and don’t have a functional money status; you belong to an average class family, thus you probably already know what sacrifices your parent make just to flesh you up. Their only dream they have is that they don’t want you in the same position as they are in!
Yes, it is this point where they don't understand you.
Why do you think our country is producing the most significant number of engineers?
Because everyone’s favorite subject is Science or because they want to serve their country by doing this?
Hush!
Never!
By the time you grow up and gain some conscience, you know your parents are working hard to get you settled for better future by educating you in best possible school they could afford. After 10th, if you score well in academics, you are already an engineer for your parent. They see a future in you. Maybe they will never say this to you, but they want you to be. You know, every son(WHY ONLY SON?DAUGHTERS TOO) get to understand this at one point. You are pressurised by your parent’s hope to take up science . They want you to be like the one in your neighbour who once scored 350 in JEE and is now doing a job in some good firm. They heard that IITians are sure to get a secure job. They think the ones who do good in academics are successful. They want you to be like other but never gets to understand that not all the five fingers are equal.
Your parent never understand your dream.
If you are brought up in middle class family you know how important is government job too.
Yes, Indian parents do say “go do whatever you want to do”; but how many times had you seen a parent coming and saying to you “why don’t you go to some good art school, you draw well”, or “if you want to be a writer, I am with you”, or “sure, you want to do gymnastics go for it”. No one will ever say this to you.
If you are good at math, you are born CA or if you understand physics and chemistry well- go! IIT is waiting for you !
Why don’t we ever hear that “a farmers son sold his masterpiece drawing for the worth of millions”? Why this headline?- “farmers son cleared UPSC with top rank.” Why don’t we ever hear “Rickshaw wallah’s son wrote a novel that went to be the Best-seller and won Booker prize”? but “Rickshaw wallah’s son bagged all India ‘X’th rank in JEE”?
I had this one friend in the village. He was taught in Bihar’s(my hometown) topmost school. He was good in arts and crafts. He could sing and perform well too. In the introduction session of class XII when a teacher asked if they enjoy taking up science, he was the only one to say “no, I wanted commerce. I regret science.”
After about a year when I visited his parent, I got to know that he wanted to join an art school. Although he was good in science, paints fascinated him more. But he belonged to a low-income family. He was taught in a school whose monthly fees was half his dad’s income and his parent struggled each day to achieve his schooling. When I asked why they didn’t let him join the art school, they were “There is no income there .Besides what will he do, sit near Taj and draw couples? I don’t want him to struggle as I do, besides he is good in studies…….there is nothing in drawing and sketching.”
Yes, the scene now a day is changing(maybe) - now when you want to be a dancer, your parent don't object. If you're going to be a journalist, they still consider your thought.
I never meant parent don’t try to understand their child. Actually, they try their best ,but in the process somewhere they kill their child dream of being someone other than engineer and doctor.
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