By: N. George Worth Noting: • While vying for an elective post that has attracted various candidates an aspirant requires a lot of investment in monetary resources, time and emotional resilience. He endures all the challenges of campaigns with great hopes that he will emerge the winner. • If he focuses on his opponents and their agenda high are chances that he could be left a worried person but hope in him that he would emerge as the most preferred candidate keeps him going. He feels free to present his case to the electorates. Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free ……… Dwight D. Eisenhower When a pilot in charge of an airplane takes off the ground he has already set the flight speed, destination and direction. He is aware of departure time and expected arrival time as well as the load ensuring that he has not exceeded the recommended limits. To him he has faith that all will be well that is why he has taken all the necessary measures from his side. He has no worries of what will happen all he wishes is that everything will be favourable. When going to sleep we are aware that we shall be in unconscious state not everyone who sleep manage to wake up but when we do it from one day to the other not everyone write a will whenever he intends to sleep or worry how he will wake up as many have great faith that they will wake up safe and sound. They are free from fears of death especially when they are not feeling sick while going to sleep. When starting marriage, a couple is full of faith that their life together will be successful. They plan many good things in the future like the number of children they will bear despite having seen many other couples who have failed to bear children or divorced immediately after wedding. They focus more on those who have succeeded and wish to take that direction. They are free of doubts about disagreement in their relationship. While vying for an elective post that has attracted various candidates an aspirant requires a lot of investment in monetary resources, time and emotional resilience. He endures all the challenges of campaigns with great hopes that he will emerge the winner. If he focuses on his opponents and their agenda high are chances that he could be left a worried person but hope in him that he would emerge as the most preferred candidate keeps him going. He feels free to present his case to the electorates. While a farmer is sowing his seeds he selects the best available ones that he can afford after he had prepared the land. In his mind he has no doubts that the season will be favourable to him. When the rainy season starts he hopes that it will continue raining and it will be sufficient enough to enable his crops to grow up to maturity. He is free from fears of uncertainties that is why many of them do not bother insuring their crops. A fisherman heading to the waters to catch fear does not have fears that he will not be lucky during any given day. To him nature will conspire to make him succeed as it had done in the past otherwise he could have opted to look for another source of food and income. A teacher is hopeful that whatever he is teaching the students will understand. During the reporting day the students may have minimal information about his subject but upon being taught he has high hopes that they will internalize the concepts and be able to apply them whenever need be.
By: Irfan Khan
Facilitating and enlightening the life of children obviously manifests very crucial as they are always teemed ‘ our future treasure’. Children in most of developing countries, including Pakistan entrench in extremely miserable and harsh conditions due to dearth of governmental support, indicating scarce facilities. Apart from this unfortunate, the life of many(children) moves towards deterioration due to their own parents’ incessant negligence, appearing this feat harmful. In order to offer a bright and shining future, parents are first of all liable as they perennially live in the company of their children.
There are some vague mistakes that all members of society perpetrate in one form or the other, but these can engender unfavourable consequences in the long run, dire to bright future of children. Undeniably, parents, holding immense significance, are not solely responsible to glean food, clothes and shelter to children, but paramountly clinch the task to keep an eye on the company and daily routine of latter. Let’s, with deep concentration, elaborate all those breached circles that need to be amended, in order to shape an enlightened future for children. Safeguarding this precious segment of society requires fostering awareness, and significantly sheer attention from parents’ side.
Amongst the greatest mistakes, putting children in the race of competition to yield good marks in academies during examinations, looms the most significant one, requiring prompt attention. Most of parents, may be literate or illiterate, who always exhort and motivate the former to endeavour, and work harder to clinch what they wish. This emanates good, but not at all, as this most of time remains unfeasible to achieve the parents desired objectives, depending on children’s own interests. In this scenario, pressure and stress to some extent is also triggered out, grabbing the latter’s internal contentment, and undermining the latter’s naturally gifted skills.
In our most of homes, children confront a discouraging environment only for not securing remarkable marks in exams, highlighting family members’ wrath and resentment. This feat surely devises bleakness, discouragement as well as mental stress. In this regard, what manifests extremely imperative, in the best of children, is to recognise their natural skills and interests, as well as provide an inspiring environment that enhances and stimulates their natural potentials. Children should be enticed to swell self study habits, and it perports sublimely fruitful effort that can generate delighting and staggering consequences in the long run.
Likewise, as the world is getting advanced in technological development with each passing day, it can be observed that today every child holds an easy access to internet facilities and smartphone. According to Mental Health Experts, the latter is apparently good in promoting thinking level, fulfilling entertainment level and and thriving one mentally. However, the overuse of this productive tool unleashes a sort of perpetual addiction, debilitates thinking ability, affects eyes vision and devises laziness, underscoring its bashing impacts. Similarly, time, which is money, is top of all wasted imperceptibly.
All these crises, unfortunately, can be witnessed in our children, demanding tangible and substantial response. It is necessary to discourage the overuse of this aforementioned tool in children, and kindle the latter’s interest in other supporting and fruitful activities. What becomes really unfortunate is that we have always made this tool available to children, but have never provided them the opportunity to take participation in physical activities and sports games. The latter being beneficial assists in revamping the function of muscles inside the body and helps in eradicating a number of diseases. Appreciating the interest of children in sports is truly an indicative towards moulding a vigorous and healthy future for children, a bare reflection of an enlightened future.
The sublime words” Life without health is not a life, it is a state of languor and hunger, an image of death” said by Mahatma Buddha elaborate the unimaginable worth of this mentioned gift[Health] and entail attention to the latter as the fundamental task of every individual. These worthy words urge to head off unhygienic meals, and to remain careful in eating and drinking menus.
It is really regretting that most of parents accentuate monstrous carelessness in the form of not dispiriting children from the overtaking of cool drinks (stealth to health) as the latter contain huge chunks of carbonates and glucose, fatal to body cells. Is it not our negligence that we have apparently deprived our offsprings from taking fruits and vegetables(extremely beneficial)? Is this not inevitable to abstain children from added sugar products and spicy meals?
Assuredly, first of all, parents and teachers need to apprise children about the negative impacts of aforementioned meals. Top of all, dissuading children from the increment use of soft drinks is quite necessary. All these mean that providing good and healthy life to children is an indicative of offering an enlightened future to children.
Let us all wrestle to enlighten and ease the life of our children in form equipping them with good health, sports activities, self confidence, discipline and study habits.
The writer is a student, and can be reached at: irfankhantareen10@gmail.com
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