Changeism!!

When ever I see school going kids I am always fascinated by the way they carry themselves. I also wonder if I would have sustained in this type of environment. I mean, I am not sure if my parents would have approved of giving me the cellphones or the scooties when in high school. Also I feel that these things are so common nowadays that kids who don’t have the gadgets must be feeling left out in a group. When I did my high school internet was not a household thing, even the only scope of getting the results were when they were displayed in school board or either you are so resourceful that you can get it checked at the board itself (that happens seldom). Once the CBSE results were announced the results were displayed after a week in the notice board. Now with advent of internet students can easily check the results sitting at home. But what about those who don’t have the facility at home?
Raising kids now a days surely needs much more awareness, sensibility and a lot of money. Gone are the days when one school uniform or any other dress was passed from one sibling to other and even in some cases to the cousins too. Branded clothes are what kids are wearing these days. We were more into NCERT books and projects meant doing something additional through books only. However today students have much more scope with google in their hands. I never liked the tuition thing and I just got the tuitions only in my high school and Intermediate but now after high school children are joining coaching classes preparing side by side for the examinations they will be appearing after 12th class. Surely the competition has increased and if you are not going with the pace others are going you will be left out in this world. Summer vacations were mostly spent either playing badminton or the world of comics – Billu,pinky,naagraaj,chacha chaudhry.The kids world use to be of comics and those who had good collection of these were the leaders. Afternoons were spent exchanging the comics or renting them for a rupee or two for a day. Now I assume may be the kids do that but surely for the videogames. Comics are something antique these days. Cartoons were there but only on Sundays and on Doordarshan the only options were Rangoli,Ramayan,Mahabharat etc. Later on the daily soap Shanti and swabhimaan were the topics of discussion. Who would have thought that after 10-15 years kids will have full time cartoon networks,dedicated kids channel and about 100 other channels to surf?Additionally the kids have the social networking sites too. I was surprised to see my cousin studying in 9th class having an account in Orkut.I remember that my aunt was showing proudly the photographs that her son had posted in orkut. I was fuming inside and was annoyed that she is not aware of the misuse of these kind of sites.
Yes! the world is changing, the technology is changing and the way kids grow up is also changing. The kids are a lot smarter, aware today but in our days we didn’t have the MMS scandal or kids firing at school.

Change and adaptability is the law of survival so everyone is changing. In this fast wind of change, we don’t even have the time to stop and think the impact of the change cos we also have to be in this race to survive. Seems it is true that we progress only at the expense of something and it is upon us to decide what we want.