Human life is a magic of the creator, which in each phase goes through a similarly yet indifferent situations. If teenage is an age of sprouting to a neo society, youth is a stepping stone towards the struggles of responsible world.
The age from 15 to 29 is considered to be youth as per National Youth Policy 2014. Indian kids who naturally grow under the direct shadow of their parents unlike any European nations begin their elderly decision making initiatives in their early twenties, giving a tough time to the parents. It is the time, where parents find it hard on accepting the changes in the children and face a chaos of whether to let their kid decide or intervene and make parental decision binding.
Man and Woman have different struggles as they grow up in the society. Specially in a cultural background that India holds, both men and women are assigned with gender specific duties and responsibilities. It will be never easy for a man nor a woman to take up rebellious resolutions, which differs from pre-existing socio-cultural norm.
A boy when steps in to the high school is moulded to earn, make money and look after the family where as a girl, to grow up to take care of a house through the institution of marriage. In both the cases when things delay, that is if a man fails to take up a job as soon he completes his graduation, he is labelled to be incapable and least responsible. While for a girl, her not being married is treated as a headache and she in each point of life is made to worry over the same.
“Have a good earning job and settle down in your life’’, says society to a man and expects a women to get married and ‘having a settled life’.
To be married and to be financially independent are the significant factors in one’s life despite the gender. Delaying marriage for a man in the name of job until his thirties, forcing marriage on women in her early teens/twenties and closing the door for her dreams in having a successful career, are both not appreciable, until and unless they too have their consent on the same. As human beings are created in pairs, marriage as an institution to unite two individuals play a major role.
Delaying it for a man is never feasible same like for women. On the other hand, girl too is a creation with dreams, making her mind accept that marriage as the only dream which she should be dreaming of is insane.
As Khalil Gibran in his poem ‘’ON Children’’ says, ‘Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters oflLife’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.’
Parents of the generation should slow and steadily evolve to accept the dreams of marriage and profession in an equal scale both to their male and female children. On other hand, to the youth today it may not be a successful task on making the generation old parents to evolve to such a change quickly. And so as the upcoming generation of the society, we youth should build a family that can make marriage and profession go smoothly hand in hand. Neither for a man nor for a woman career dream and marriage should hinder the other.