"Rejoice,

O Young Man, in thy youth;

       And let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth"

                                     -Old Testament.

         It was just the previous day when I observed many young people were taking hard efforts like anything at a single place. Amazed? Yep it was at gym, they were taking efforts like anything to give nice toning to their body. After meticulously observing them, (as I never take such efforts while exercising) I came to know one thing that more the efforts they were putting, more the delightful they were feeling. And in no time a question struck my mind that if each and every youth of my motherland will take such efforts in each and every field, the dream of 2020 won't be far away.  

         These days young people,are not putting their full efforts on studies. Is it because they lack motivation? Or is it because they don't know what will be its outcome? Unlike in gym where one does know why he/she is doing a particular exercise. But what if we know what can be the outcome of accomplishing our responsibilities? It is applicable not only for our responsibilities but same is the case with our aims and objectives. Why can’t we take our efforts in gym as a metaphor for the fulfillment of our needs and achievement of our goals? Once we are clear about the image of our aim ,we must find out the various ways for doing it. Once this is done then you should start your implementation. Like Swami Vivekananda says,

“Awake! Arise! And stop not till the goal is reached.”

 

It is very essential that one should be passionate about whatever he is doing. If your inner acumen supports you in doing it no one can stop you from achieving it.

       We have the greatest democracy of the world and we have the greatest share of youth in the world’s population. Let’s all strive hard to accomplish our duties. The most important thing is that we must cast our votes. We must exercise our power to elect our representative by voting with the aim of making our motherland a superpower till 2020. We must work hard in our respective fields to develop our motherland. Each and every one of us must try to plant at least a tree and grow it till it becomes self sufficient for its own growth. Every one of us should try to educate at least five children from slums who aren't at all aware about English. We must donate our blood; we must pledge to donate our eyes and organs for the betterment of people who are not gifted by god like we all are. We must donate clothes and other things which are used in day to day life to the Have not’s, i.e. the group which is not capable of buying such things. We must spare our time to meet the elders who are feeling frustrated in the old age homes. In our free time rather than doing mujorya and chengal (sorry! Couldn't find an appropriate word for this in English and it also doesn't convey that feeling) with our group; we must unite and think about various ways in which we can develop ourselves as well as our society. We must find our various ways to break the shackles of caste-ism. I am damn sure that once we will start putting efforts in these things we will feel more delightful to put in something extra than we can, just like the gym.

       Hereby I urge you all my country mates to know our goals and work hard for its achievement and for the accomplishment of our duties. In Hindi, youth is called युवा  if we reverse its order it becomes वायू which means air. So the youth of this country is like air which can change the scenario within minutes if they decide to do so. So let’s be the वायू  and work hard from now onwards!!

                                   JAY HIND!!

POSTSCRIPT:  Many readers would have questioned that how can the accomplishment of our duties be the solution for the achievement of the 2020’s dream? But the reality is, the steps which are to be taken for this need to be taken at the highest level of the cabinet ministers and the bureaucrats. The reality also is that we are backward on the social front so it becomes cardinal that our society should be substantiated from within by our efforts to domicile the winds of globalization and privatization. This is the logic why I have telescoped a lot on social responsibilities. Any new ideas and feedbacks about this are most welcomed..