Youth Talk

At every age, there exists that first time that you try something new. The first time you watch a 16+ movie, the first time you handle money on your own, the first time you exit your compound alone, the first time you drive … our life is full of firsts. It is these first that break the monotony of our life.

However, while doing something for the very first time, we also break something-else - we break boundaries. Something that we weren’t allowed to do early or something we didn’t prefer doing before. And, I believe, that the best places for these ‘boundaries’ to be broken are at home.

Someone once said: ‘If you can’t be yourself at home, you can never be yourself and if you don’t get that support from home to do something, you probably shouldn’t be doing it anyways’.

Arguing against the ‘healthy, wealthy and wise’ age-old motto, I say, one should rather focus on having a life without any regrets.

Doing new things under the supervision of our parents and a trusted circle of friends or family would ensure that we safely break the barriers and don’t feel guilty about what we do.

In fact, I think that parents should be more open-minded with their children and aim to be more of friendly figures instead of rules-imposing individuals.

That is exactly what my parents have been to me, always, and it ensures that I take the right path because of the love and respect I have for them and not because of any fear they impose.

Fear can be pushed away relatively easily, love cannot.