#BeingYoung is not a child's play..

The fantasy that there is someone absolutely perfect for you somewhere out there in the real world is probably the very reason humanity hasn't gone extinct even after 200,000 years  of cumulative  experience of sapiens with life. While the fantasy comes true for a very small fraction of dreamers, the others are forced to wake up and smell the rotten reality.

Going back to school after a long break gave me an opportunity to understand the present day's twenty-somethings and their constant fight with issues ranging from internet speed to finding love.

Out of a wide range of requirements, two components seem to be necessary and sufficient for keeping themselves trendy and cool enough to achieve the approval of their peers. A don't care-attitude and being in a relation with someone. Even though its incomprehensible how these two qualities can co-exist, I managed to move past it and have some fiercely fun conversations with my Delhi-born younger classmate, who took great pride in getting bored of people around her, way too quickly. 

One of the reasons why people "move on" claiming to be bored is, everyone is scared of getting hurt. But caring enough for someone, to risk getting hurt is like the best thing in the world. Getting your heart hammered by that precious someone gives an unearthly sense of accomplishment. But also,  its tough to be a youngster in the world of virtual reality. Its hard to make a right choice, of where to invest your feelings, when all the choices you have around you are,  celebrity fans, social-wall-addicts or material-flaunters. So, it's not an exaggeration to say that, the younger lot are struggle-shuttling between updating themselves with all the useless trending videos, memes and apps  AND taking life defining crucial decisions. All at the same time. Hormones distract them to the former and parents compel them to do the latter.

This multitasking gets even more adventurous for the ones who think they have found the love of their life. Keeping a relationship intact with someone whom you actually care for, is probably the easiest of all tasks in the human relations genre. When you like a person, it is very easy to ignore their inadequacies and incapabilities. It can be that simple but some always end up justifying, in one way or the other, every stupidity of the person they love the most. Thats how some people continue to stay in an abusive relationship,  swallowing their pride every single day. Their hope that things would get better, never dies and the thought that someone better will come along never gets strong enough. "Breakup" is just a word away for most, but its a very bad time to be, for those who are looking for a true, meaningful relationship. Hope keeps them rolling, even though that special someone can hardly see how fortunate it is to find someone who cares.  It must be an impeccable talent to get rid of every single person who actually cares to put up with them !!

Being young is not a child's play anymore!!!!