It is easy to suggest that youth and problems are concomitant .Youth has different meanings to different times. According to Aristotle one is young as long as one was strong and healthy. In Buddhist term, youth means to consistently maintain an open, flexible and tolerant mind.
Youth life style depends upon the aspirations, opportunities, nature of society and many other factors. His or her life is influenced by the place of living, customs, family-bindings, culture etc. One major problem facing our Naga Youth at present day is that the young men have wrong concept of modernization and they think that modernization lies in westernization of social life. Western culture has both negative and positive impact. We cannot deny the fact that western culture helped us in bringing us with the fast moving world from our traditional dresses to Jeans, t-shirts etc..I strongly disagree that the western culture is ruining our youth. It is responsible to a great extent for bringing about development and change on social, economic, scientific etc.. Thus helping us to move towards progress. I myself being a youth with my jeans and t-shirt saying western culture is ruining our youth would sound rather orthodox. This is absurd .But What is needed is that we should select certain western cultural ethos which is beneficial to our social atmosphere but the irony is that the present day youth are carried away by western way of life.`` Fashion” is the talk of the youths today. They are blindly attracted to fashionable life propagated by print and electronic media. Costly dresses and casual wears are taken up to show off the status of young men and women but when we look carefully, there are parents who expect their children to live according to their standard of living but many vehemently refuse to do so. Majority of the youths demand their wants beyond the reach of their parents. Very true that Western Culture has brought changes which are beneficial to us but it should be in the limit. Fashion not only means clothing, In the name of Fashion youth have taken to drug addiction, drinking, smoking which is a major problem ,crushing the society.
Youth is the time when one needs to take the right step, know what to choose and what to discard. Youth when they reach the adult stage, their role differs. The zeal to work, earn and live independently has been acquired at this stage but with the wrong concept it will lead to ones own failure. A good parenting is required. Responsibility lies with the parents and teachers as well. They need to fulfill their duty by respecting the right of children by educating them, giving them the knowledge and the mental habits required for forming independent opinion. Parents should encourage their children when they do something good, making them a wanted child. This develops a good parent and child relationship. It is the parents duty to guide the child in the right path by being a good example but unfortunately this is lacking in our society. As youth being an important stage, the future of the land depends on the present day youth. Young persons with healthy mind and body can brighten the future of any country.
Considering the aforesaid discussion, I would like to suggest that sincere efforts should be made by the youths and supported by parents to solve the problems facing the present day youth. So that ``We” maybe able to become dynamic leaders of Tomorrow.
Mharemo R.Ngullie Ma, Delhi University
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