change in perspective

Over the past six months many of my friends turned twenty and over the next half year, most of the rest of us would join them.
Twenty means stepping out of your teens and entering the youth. Wearing upon yourself responsibility. I won't sit here and give lectures that it is time we started acting responsible and stuff. I won't because most of us are responsible.
People of the past(as we call them) or the wise ones(the way they call themselves) think otherwise. fortunately or unfortunately our parents are a part of these wise men and women. I am not saying that they don't think you are responsible, they do but not to the correct extent. Indeed we are responsible, we act responsibly. Its just a matter of different perspectives. the way we see responsibility and the way our elders do. We can't blame any one of them. The way we perceive things, the way we admire them is different from the way our parents do.

The time now belongs to us, the youth. Times change. People change. There must be a change in the idea or notion about responsibility. There must be a change in perspective. This is not the sixties or the seventies or the eighties, this is 2010. laptops, mobiles, bikes are not a luxury but another basic necessity. did you all call paper to be a luxury back then?

phones, music players or even personal transport, if they were never a luxury at your time, how could they be a luxury now?
your gramophones or radio became our i-pods. your bullock carts and bicycles became our bikes. Your letters became our e-mails. your booked trunk calls became our instant std. your old model phones became our new model mobiles.

It takes the same effort to write a letter or an e-mail. the music is still the same, Beethoven remains to be Beethoven whether its a gramophone or an i-pod. It is just that over these years the ease with which work can be done has improved. life just got more comfortable. that doesn't mean it has become any easy. It is as tough for us as it has been for you all, just that when we go out there we have a sense of security in our hearts. A sense of security that you all definitely missed. I whole- heartedly thank you all and am grateful to all of you for having provided us with this sense of security.
But, we want to live our lives the way we want to. this was something you all could not afford to do back then. you all led a cautious life. It was the need of the hour back then, but it is surely not anymore. We can afford to be ourselves. We can afford to be experimental. We can afford to be foolish.
We are not half your age. We won't say we know what we are doing because most of us honestly don't know what we are doing. We do it because we trust our instinct and our gut feeling. Be supportive not persuasive. You all say that, " it has worked out for us because we did things this way", but have you all ever realized that you never knew how things would turn out to be. As the famous STEVE JOBS said, it is easy to connect the dots looking backwards and impossible to connect them looking forwards. Guide us, don't try to influence us. When you show us people- successful people and ask us to take them as our role models, all of you forget one thing - those men were successful because they chose what they wanted to be. they chose the way they wanted it to be. they never chose from the paths the lie before them, they made their own path. A new path, a path they wanted to travel along and in this process they have created another path for us to chose from. Let us make our own path, if not at least let us choose our own path.
let us have things done our way. let us have our own style; unprecedented and unique. let us be unorthodox but effective and efficient. let us fail at things, so that we don't fail in life. Let us be true to ourselves and self satisfied before we are responsible.
what is responsibility without meaning. responsibility towards a society means acting as per the interests of the society and towards its development. what is the worth of being responsible towards the society when you cannot be responsible towards yourself. why do you care for what others have to say about you when you are not wrong. If what they say is positive or for your good, then may be it is fine else don't give a damn. don't give a damn to the guy who sits in the last row and whistles when you stammer on the stage. mind you, that guy doesn't have the guts to go on stage and stand there and be laughed at.
there is something special about the youth. there is a fire in them. yes! it cools down with age. but before it does, it creates history. yes! this fire may commit many mistakes, but at the same time it carries a potential to reach great heights, which the so called calm, cool and composed oldies cannot. Don't kill the fire. Its but natural that this fire will diminish, please do not be a catalyst to this process.
don't ask us to be more and more mature. don't ask us not to be foolish. if we are as matured as you all are and that means at one third your age then surely something is not right. definitely!
let the fire inside us burn. Don't put out this fire. if you have already then its time you re-kindle it. It is surely this fire that would take us and with us the world forward. as we here, enter the youth there is only one direction and its forward.