What to be, what not to be?

 In today's competitive world the most basic need to thrive is to choose the right path for a great career and a bright future. Usually in the process to choose the right path and to make their children's future secure parents tell them what they will be. Well it is quite a trend now that parents decide their child's future.

The first instinct of what a child will be comes to him from the very first moment he is born. When somebody new comes to the family parents usually try to teach and order the child to fulfill their dreams. This is not quite right because many a times when a child is good in certain field , he has to leave it to make his parents dream come true. I am not saying that it is wrong if a parent has high expectations from his child but I am saying it because turning your child into you is wrong.

Now this is the point when a child if becomes unsuccessful blames his parents. Even that is till some point justified because a child excels only in things he is interested in. Let me tell you something, when parents are forcing their lad to choose a particular stream or subject during school or college, they are actually KILLING their child's dreams. Is it right? Like do we as humans have the right to crush somebody's dreams just to make him fulfill our dreams? No it isn't.

You would have usually heard your parents saying,"We have forgot what our dreams were.". Now this is something which their parents did when they decided their future. When we would grow up and become parents then we have the right to make various lines available to children but we don't have the right to choose which line is right for them. By this way we are making the future generations completely dependent on ourselves. We won't be around each time they have some problem. Would we?

Now the question is then what should we as children and our elders as parents should do? See, it is very obvious that there is no society where there are no conflicts. These conflicts can never be completely solved but at least they can be respected. We the younger generation, having more exposure should make our parents understand why is something necessary and what are it's advantages? The parents too should tell us where we are wrong and believe us and our choices. They all tell you such things about your future because they are worried about you, but they should trust us and our choices. They should have the belief that the choices we make will always be the steps of the ladder which reaches to a place called "success".

Last I would also like to tell our generation to listen to our parents and respect their opinions and always remember the "even the tallest of skyscrapers would fall if the earth below them is removed".

-Sarthak Gulati