Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
In this world of 7.6 billion, competition is not an option, it’s the only way. Writing from a student’s perspective, it seems like the moment a child enters the 9th Grade, they are offered a choice between being the best academically or rejecting that and continuing with a far spread social life. As much as studies are important and I admit I too have on some occasions chosen mathematics over human encounter, I now question whether it is wise to neglect either for the other.
To add to this, we were introduced to gadgets.
People often forget that ahead of the entrance exams and grades lay interviews and formal dinners, voila and socialising.
And, I don’t mean the kind of social life that easily bubbles up around one because they are regular users of Facebook or because there is a broadcast function in Whatsapp. It’s the kind of deep friendship that you are bound to miss after high school is over.
Instead of knowing the world and its people through a gadget, we should see it through our eyes. Build relationships, build knowledge and most of all … build a life.
