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"હેપ્પી બાળ ડે"

હેપ્પી ચિલ્ડ્રનસ ડે – બધાંને,

માંડું છું એક વાત.

મરવા ન દેશો એ ભવિષ્યને

ચરબીજન્ય વાતો થી,

ન ભરશો એને

ખાલી ખોટા લેબલ થી

ન બાંધશો એને

વિધવિધ સામાજિક કેબલ થી.

એણે ક્યારેક એમ કર્યું,

ખૂબ ચડ્યું તોફાને,

રમકડાં તોડ્યાં, ટીવી તોડ્યું,

ખૂબ રડ્યું ને ખૂબ લડ્યું મેદાને

માર્યું, અને માર ખાધો ય ખરો

પણ ખૂબ શીખ્યું અભ્યાસે.

જીવતું રાખજો એ બાળકને જેને...

જેને નાચવું છે, ગાવું છે, ખાવું છે,

દોડીને થાકીને પડી આખડીને,

ક્યાંક પહોંચવું છે.

સમજવું છે, સમજાવવું છે,

સર્જવું છે, ચિતરવું છે,

ખૂબ પૂછવું છે, ને જાણવું છે,

જીવનને જસ્ટ જોવું નથી,

પણ નોખું, નવતર કશુંક કરીને...

જીવવું છે.

જે દુનિયાએ એને આપ્યું

એ દુનિયાને કશુંક દેવું છે.

ઝંખે છે એના કાન –

વાર્તાઓ,

માનવકથાઓ, વીતક કથાઓ,

ને જીભ – આગવી ભાષા.

ઝંખે છે એની આંખ –

વિસ્મય, સુંદરતા અને જ્ઞાન.

કહો એને –

કડવા સત્યો, ગીત સૂરીલા,

કરાવો –

અનુભવના હળવા બોધ;

આપો એને –

થોડીક તાળીઓ,

થપકીઓ, હં હોંકારા,

ને મીઠા હીંચકાઓ.

દરેક યુવાન, વયસ્ક અને વૃદ્ધમાં

સાંકડ મુકડ એ બેઠું છે.

જોજો રખે એ મરે નહીં,

એને કોઈ મારે નહિ,

ખુદ સચવાઈને સાચવજો,

એ બાળકનું બસ,

ધ્યાન રાખજો.

- રોહિત વ્યાસ

બે ને અઠ્યાવિસ

બાળદિન, બે હજાર બાવીસ.

Giveaway - Takeaway

Hi,

Giveaway

What you have is what you give, right? Selfies we click, videos we share, captions we write, places we visit, books we purchase, food we eat, ideas we produce and so on. Let's see this platform for example. Blogger has helped tremendously to the content creators, travelers, food lovers, pet lovers in sharing what they have. There are several such knowledge sharing platforms, but not all of them are used well. As mentioned earlier, there are purposes to share things. Even if we think we don't have any. The youth engages themselves in the platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Twitter, Flickr...

Different purposes, different perspectives.

Takeaway

What you give is what you get, isn't it? Takeaway is not just a word used for food deliveries and parcel services. We all have takeaways to give. Read the first paragraph. Why do people connect over social media? Again, there are purposes. We read, watch, like, comment, share, subscribe, store, save and archive numerous content throughout the day. Ever thought why? There's a purpose of consuming social media.

Newness, novelty, the 'want' of something fresh, has been in demand since the evolution of human consciousness. It's one of the purposes to watch reels and videos that something new will be there. But algorithms have different story !

Whatever is consumed is a takeaway for the consumer. Well, takeaways depend on an individual's choices and lived experiences.

We give in order to get more. We consume in order to give more.

So, are we here just to take, consume and acquire things, content, getting likes, views... ? No. The process goes simultaneously. Let's see this picture below.

Infinity Loop

This loop is not just for social media and the activities we do around it, it's for majority of the things we do around the years we've  lived.

The moment we consume the content we have a thought to share it.

Let's take a fictional case here.

A happy-go-lucky teenage boy living in a metro city, plays football, admires Messy, Ronaldo, watches Bollywood and Hollywood films, TV shows in two languages, follows The Beatles...

When he sits down with his phone while scrolling Instagram reels, he stops at a motivational health reel which is useful for his practice. He saves it, shares with his five to six friends with the common interest. Next day while doing workout he realizes that he's just crossed a two more sets of bench dips he had set for his shoulder workout. Excited he, clicks a selfie, writes captions, shares on snapchat and Facebook. Receives likes and comments. Returning back from school, he orders pizza and watches FRIENDS on Netflix, clicks photos and puts an update by tagging few friends. His friends share some memes regarding the same. Sleeps. Day over.

Facts from this story.

Boys location - Metro City

His activities - study, play, songs, workout, films

His mode of documentation - clicking photos, selfies, captions

Sharing platforms - Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat

Now, here are some questions to my readers. Do think upon them and reflect.

Have you observed when he consumes and when he shares? What's his motivation? social media or his real life? Does he lives life on the screen or off the screen? Is this just a fictional case or it happens too often around us?

That's why we need to watch a film: Social Dilemma.

Just to mention some side notes: In religion also we have many references such as Karma and it's outcomes. Sins and merit... 

Hey, isn't this a takeaway? :P  :D

Stay tuned ! Ciao.

Listening to Dr. Vikas Divyakirti

Hi Everyone!

Hope you all are doing great. Listening to interviews is a good source of knowing the know-hows and why-hows of any individual's thoughts and beliefs.

Dr. Vikas Divyakirti is an IAS coach who runs an academy named "Drishti IAS" in Delhi. He is quite popular among the Indian young minds who aspire to be an IAS officer. Many of his classroom sessions are covering the internet cloud in the form of short YouTube videos.

Alongside, Sandeep Maheshwari is also without a doubt holds a massive space in the category of Motivational videos and seminars. His most recent series of episodes is being popular in which he invites various influencers, speakers, teachers, life-coaches and interacts with him in the form of open-to-audience interview.

Let's have a look at the video which has few good things worth learning and worth applying in life.

Here are some important points he has mentioned.

1. Decision Making

- Practical and Emotional Choices

- Nothing is either completely practical or emotional. There are always grey areas in our choices.

- Not to go against our values.

2. Demotivation from goals

- An activity to to make a list of things we have and others don't have. (Focusing on what we have)

- સફળ થવા કરતાં સાર્થક થવું વધારે જરૂરી છે.

- The consciousness of lacking something is the nature of human consciousness.

दुनिया जिसे कहते हैं जादू का खिलौना है,

मिल गया सो मिट्टी है, नहीं मिला वो सोना है।

3. Education System

- We can be good at few things, we can be best at maybe one thing, we cannot be best at everything.

- क्यों डरें ज़िंदगी में क्या होगा, कुछ न होगा तो तजुर्बा होगा।

ये फूल मुझे कोई विरासत में मिले हैं,

तुमने मेरा कांटो भरा बिस्तर नहीं देखा

- बशीर बद्र

Thanks for staying tuned. !!!