Blog for Youth

In the last few years, blogging has turned out to be one of the most interesting and profit-making activities. This is not because it allows bloggers to think above the rest and express their views, but also because it is always better to inform the world rather than indulging into gossips.

It would be surprising for you to know that success of eminent websites such as WordPress and Blogger can be easily contributed to blogs by individuals and corporate. While personal and corporate blogs reaching to the masses, personal and commercial interests are now able to achieve the purpose of what they were made – promotion at a mass-scale.

Blogging not only enhances a blogger’s writing skills but can also help him or her earn a considerable amount of money (paid blogging). Even if money is not involved, the very thought of expressing thoughts and finding appreciation from people of similar interests is more than enough to keep hands on the keyboard moving.

If you are keen to move ahead with the idea of blogging, things are pretty easy for you. This is because creating a blog is as easy as you can get. There is no money involved for you to setup a blogging account and you can promote the same by sending an email to your friends, colleagues, family members, or relatives or by even submitting the same to search engine directories.

Life of a Youth was never easy and today’s times are no exceptions. With so many alternatives and distractions, life can be really tough if the right decisions are not taken at the right place and at the right time. This blog is going to be all about thinking in the right direction so that decision-making is never a complicated issue.

Before reading about anything, let us first find out what is the reason behind all the complications. The weakness to say NO – yes, you read it right it is the use of word “NO”.

Ask yourself how many times you have done something that you never wanted to do and did it just because you did not want to say no to some one. I am sure that it is more than one time and this is an ongoing thing for you by now. But have you ever realized what this inability to say no at the right time can do to your mind, career, life, and body. You may have never wanted to join management but you did not say no. You may never have wanted to live life with some one, but no was again missing. You may also never have wanted to approve some one’s wrongdoings, but you were not able to say no. Now think again and ask yourself “Isn’t my inability to say NO proving costing me much?”

Well it is, believe it or not and you need to change your approach to life before life takes a turn for the worse. Never do something that you do not initially approve just because that makes some one, close to you, happy. What is wrong is always wrong and it does not matter if that is right in some one else’s eyes. It is your life and you just cannot allow any one to make or influence your decision-making abilities and if you do, you do not have the right to blame them when things start going wrong for you. After all, it was you who made the decision and it hardly matters whether that was an open-hearted or influenced decision.

In short, being part of the Youth brigade does not allow you to make mistakes, make the right decisions and lead your life peacefully.

T. Alan Armstrong once said, “”Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.” This statement is as true today and will be tomorrow as it was when it was first said. This is because Champions are not created in a day; they identify their true skills and weakness and ensure that the “big waves of destiny” do not make them rusty or their dreams are not turned down by their own thought process and acts.

It is important to realize the fact that one, including you and me, needs to behave like a merely decent human being before thinking of being a hero in the eyes of one and all. This simply means that if an expected opportunity does not knock your door, you need to create a new door. Sounds thrilling but when are you really expecting yourself to work on it? Today or may be tomorrow or may be never? If you say “today”, “tomorrow”, or “never”, I would say that you will never be able to do it as it has to be “Now or never”. Remember, good and great things happened because they were not delayed and plans were developed with care and diligence so that they could find the “wings”, originally perceived by the dreamer.

So, if you are thinking that the world is not the right place for you or you see yourself hiding behind excuses, you know where you are destined for – not for success, at least.

If you want to make a name for yourself, think and act now! Do not delay things that could have been completed today itself. Well, it does not mean that everything needs to be done in a state of rush and without any thoughts but what it means is that if you are confident of doing something now then there could not be any second thoughts or delays in transforming that dream into a reality. We hope that the purpose of writing this motivational blog for you and everybody is not defeated or is it?

We often see the youth indulging in inappropriate behavior, the most common among them being anti-social behaviour, expulsion and arrogance. If we try to have a deeper look in the issue, we will learn that these things arise when we as adults are unable to understand our youth.

A fact of life is that anyone who is happy or at peace with oneself will never think of hurting anyone in anyway. It is only when the youth fail to know their true worth and their purpose in life that they indulge reckless behaviour. But what do we really do when we see our youth doing these things? Well, I have seen most people often shooing these people away, they start pointing their flaws at them, start backfiring them with remarks or at worst start excluding them from our life. When asked, most of us would have a fair explanation towards this that who would want bad elements around dispelling discomfort to them in particular and society in general.

But how many amongst us have actually tried to fathom the true cause behind all this. Why does youth indulge in this? Are we as a community helping them develop a better approach in life? Has our hatred towards them helped them in anyway? These are a few questions which still remain unanswered.

So how do we solve this imbroglio? Before going ahead, the foremost thing needed to develop as is patience and compassion towards our youngsters. We need to understand that they are as much a part of us as much is our mind in our own body. Doesn’t our mind go haywire at times? Don’t we fail to fathom what’s right for us and what’s not? My friends, the same happens with the youth too. Just that we need to be a bit more patient in handling what’s governing them to control it and make them understand what’s right for them.

In my next post, I’ll be extensively talking about the measures we can possibly employ to help our youth develop a positive spirit in life! So keep reading for more and be good!

If, both the father and his son, can act sensible and try to find out the reason behind acts done by each one of them then they can surely enjoy a peaceful and wonderful relationship.

I must highlight one fact that needs to be taken care of, by both the father and his son. I have seen many situations where the only reason behind a souring father-son relationship was the inability to express the ‘hidden’ love, care, and affection. While I have seen many sons expressing their love for mothers with affectionate hugs, acknowledgement of presence, Mother’s Day cards, and many more things, I really do not find many sons doing the same from their father.

One of the greatest reasons behind such acts is the reluctance of the father to accept the hugs, gifts, and cards, like the mother. I am sorry to say but I have to, that some fathers treat these love-expressing things as unnatural or waste of money. And, when their children do not repeat these relationship-boosting acts, fathers think that their children do not love or respect them any more.

The best way out

The best way to handle this kind of a situation would be a wholeheartedly acceptance by the father and communicating to the child that he treasures the love and affection as much as he treasures the son.

We all know that the three magical words ‘I Love You’ can cast a spell but do fathers and their sons really say these words to each other and if yes, is the communication on a regular basis? Well if that was the case, I would not have chosen to write on this topic ever.

Anyways, it is time to leave the bitterness of the past and cherish this beautiful relationship.

Blame it on the hidden feelings or an inability to express the love or generation gap, the relationship between a father and his son is ‘accused’ of serious differences most of the times.

Through this article, I would like to try my level best to find out the real roots of tensions and differences in this otherwise much-adored and beautiful relationship.

When a male child climbs to the ladder of age, the first idol before him is no one but his father. This is not because there is no one as perfect as his father but because the definition of perfectness is all about care, emotion, unexpressed love, security, and right advice at that time. And, this is all what a father means to his children. However, the definition of perfectness changes with the passing years and this is what creates all the differences.

It would not be wrong to say that mistakes are committed by both the father and his son over a period of time. They may be as small as a shout by the father when a calm advice would have done the trick and this may be as small as an outcry by the son on the non-fulfillment of his ‘unreasonable’ demands. The crux is that both of them consider themselves and their acts justified, while things may be wrong in the other one’s eyes.

Now that we have tried finding some of the differences, let us move to the second and last part of this series (in the form of next article) that will focus on how to move ahead to find solutions on how to stop these father-son duels.