Comments on: Sad generations

By: Asma Ahmad

Asma Ahmad — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:25:34 +0000

i agree with Judge Phillip completely.

but to follow his words through, we need our elders to let go of us, to trust us, to let us risk and to allow us to make our mistakes and be responsible.

how are we supposed to do any good for the world if the people who helped in bringing us into it don’t allow us to do so?

By: umesh bhagwat

umesh bhagwat — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:27:59 +0000

It was bliss to be young!

By: Masud Alam

Masud Alam — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:30:15 +0000

Tell me what’ll cheer you up …

By: Masud Alam

Masud Alam — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:20:11 +0000

MSH I wish you luck in your endeavours to achieve whatever you set out to, and I assure you you WILL be a role model if you gave yourself, or others, or both, a sense of achievement.

By: Masud Alam

Masud Alam — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:50:13 +0000

Good read, thanks. But I’m coming from home.

By: george

george — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:50:06 +0000

Muslims are more religious than any other community, and also at the same time, muslims do more sinister crimes than any other community. In every non-muslim countries in the world, muslims have a much higher prison population compared to their share of the population. This is true in India, and every country in Europe.

By: Masud Alam

Masud Alam — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:45:57 +0000

Thanks Lawman, you are a life saver. This is the only law I (now) know that has kept me out of, rather than putting me in, trouble.

By: peddarowdy

peddarowdy — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:44:32 +0000

You are not getting the Author’s point.

In India, there are movies, malls buzzing with activity, co-education, pubs, theme restaurants, theme parks, water parks, tourists, tourist destinations(like Goa, Pondicherry, Kashmir). Kids do have options. I don’t know what kind of environment you have grown in.

Yes, there is a rat race, its present in Pakistan too. But, no one can race ALL THE TIME! They need outlets to relieve their energy and stress.

For me, its unthinkable to not to have an option of gulping a few beers with my friends at a local pub.

If you decide to change your lifestyle tomorrow, you can do so, but Pakistanis are stuck. At one point in time, Bollywood was banned and theatres virtually disappeared in Pakistan. Can such a thing ever happen in India? Not a chance, its too vibrant and colourful.

By: Sajid

Sajid — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:42:33 +0000

Judge Philip B. Gilliam of Denver, Co. wrote in the South Bend Tribune, Sunday, Dec. 6, 1959.
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Always we hear the plaintive cry of the teen-ager. What can we do?…Were can we go?

The answer is GO HOME!

Hang the storm windows, paint the woodwork. Rake the leaves, mow the lawn, shovel the walk. Wash the car, learn to cook, scrub some floors. Repair the sink, build a boat, get a job.

Help the minister, priest, or rabbi, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army. Visit the sick, assist the poor, study your lessons. And then when you are through – and not too tired – read a book.

Your parents do not owe you entertainment. Your city or village does not owe you recreational facilities.

The world does not owe you a living…You owe the world something.

You owe it your time and your energy and your talents so that no one will be at war or in poverty or sick or lonely again.

Grow up; quit being a crybaby. Get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone, and start acting like a man or a lady.

You’re supposed to be mature enough to accept some of the responsibility your parents have carried for years.

They have nursed, protected, helped, appealed, begged, excused, tolerated and denied themselves needed comforts so that you could have every benefit. This they have done gladly, for you are their dearest treasure.

But now, you have no right to expect them to bow to every whim and fancy just because selfish ego instead of common sense dominates your personality, thinking and request.

In Heaven’s name, grow up and go home!
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By: sridhar

sridhar — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:02:29 +0000

We all just like a frog in the well, we can’t realise the outside the world living in a dome, we learn from our surroundings and realise the whole world, Even if we go out, Our identity has been already identified, which is not ours. We more busy in pointing out each others flaws instead of growing ourselves and helping each. I have observed their is unwritten law which is followed by high class people they help each other in every sect and common man fight with each other and making sure that common people always lie on ground. Our home is the first school where we learn most but still.
May be this could be the reason why high class people call us mass. there are some people invented middle class for their sastisfaction to differentiate themselves.