Doon Youth Centre » growing-up http://thedyc.org/blog Empowering youth for complete and transformed individuals of tomorrow ! Sat, 21 Apr 2012 05:26:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Coming of Age http://thedyc.org/blog/coming-of-age/ http://thedyc.org/blog/coming-of-age/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 12:57:54 +0000 Anshul http://thedyc.org/blog/?p=1292
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    • ]]>     Do you know what makes you happy ?
    I thought i did
    or was I ignorant of life ?
    Too many questions
    and perception is not always the truth.

    Do you know who do you love ?
    I thought I did
    or was I ignorant of the warmth around me ?
    Too may people around
    and all choices we make do not turn out to as expected.

    All I was, was a paper plane
    floating wherever blew the winds of change.
    Anyone could hold me,
    anyone could have crushed me,
    always wished to fly higher and free.

    And every time HE told me
    all I was,was a paper plane
    & that too by choice so…..
    do not complain.

    He said
    life starts at Me
    and it will end with Me
    all is in Me
    stop looking around
    what makes Me is inside Me

    All I need is trust in me
    to fulfill my destiny
    All I need is belief in me
    to bring out the best in me

    All I need is courage
    just to look inside me..

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    ]]>     http://thedyc.org/blog/coming-of-age/feed/ 10     Within all of us is a child http://thedyc.org/blog/within-all-of-us-is-a-child/ http://thedyc.org/blog/within-all-of-us-is-a-child/#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 11:54:00 +0000 Khushboo Dua http://thedyc.org/blog/?p=1290
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    • ]]>     As a kid we wanted to be everything and anything possible (or maybe not possible).

    Every summer vacation joined a new hobby class.Tried everything that came across.We were explorers as a kid and never tired of exploring and discovering more and more.
    Everyday experimented our abilities with something new,if succeeded well and good,if not, never mind.Something else must be in stored for us.We continued our search..
    Search for excitement, enthusiasm and happiness;search for the high that one feels after doing or creating something,which could very well be building a clay castle or writing poetry.

    What happened to us when we technically ‘grew up’?
    Is our search over?
    Are we done with all exploring with ourselves?
    Or have we experienced all the highs we wanted to feel?

    Have we done all the crazy things we wanted to do?
    No.We haven’t.
    Within all of us there is still that kid who is in constant quest to know more,do more;experience something new,discover new aspects of ourselves.
    So what stops us ? Responsibilities ?  Need to earn and make a living ? Peer pressure?

    Maybe all of it!

    But if we continue living like this then aren’t we running or rather are we really ‘living’ that way. By doing what we are ‘supposed’ to do and not what we really want to do, we are simply running  a rat race. In such a kind of life, we wait for things like promotion or hike in salary to give us a high.Why not experience this high more often?

    It’s all in our hands.

    Do things that you want to do.What you always wanted to do -sing, paint, dance, rock climbing.Be the child you want to be – LIVE.
    Why do we say that childhood days are the best?
    Because then we did what we desired.Did not care for the world and through this we experienced the freedom of childhood.
    Bring back that freedom to your life-start living.

    You may even change your monotonous vocation (if that is not what you want to do). There is no harm to quit the job of software engineer at the age of 35 and be a painter, if you desire so.
    It does take a while to know what gives you the real happiness. It’s okay to take your time and decide. But it’s definitely not okay to do where your heart, mind and soul is not there.

    What do you live for??
    HAPPINESS

    What is the point of living if you do not experience this happiness?That way you’ll be just breathing and not living.
    There is a famous quote: ‘Don’t run through life so fast that you forget where you were and where you are going’
    In this piece, to some I might be sounding  too liberal or impractical or a new young girl in the world who does not know the complexities of this world,whatever the case maybe.
    The bottom line is to be FREE.

    (Choice is completely individualistic…how one would like to feel this FREEDOM.)

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