Youth-anasia

When one of my dearest friend texted that he feels that life after college is being deteriorated with every passing day, I ran a poll on Twitter that resulted in 70% of the voters admitting that their life after college is actually being degenerating. Post-graduate depression is not a newly introduced phenomena but yesterday when an apparently happy-go-lucky kind of guy tweeted publicly that he is going to commit suicide, it occurred to me that millennials are required to be reminded that they need to update their system’s software.

Do you remember your parents and relatives convincing you how your next academic year after 10^th grade will become easy and negotiating to make you more attentive towards your board exams? And do you remember your academic graph falling like the Sensex of 2007 in your 11^th grade? Of course you don’t want to remember that but the fact is, a major syllabus transition required you to redesign your learning strategies which you couldn’t realise on time and hence the index fall of 2007.

Life after college is no different. The idea that your interests and hobbies are the key ingredients of the personality you posses needs to be rethought. If a student’s college experiences are mostly positive, college provides a cocoon of sorts: a community of friends, teachers and mentors who are mostly readily available to offer support or advice. Graduating symbolizes a leap into ‘adult’ life, leaving back all the ecstatic existence you created back in college, which is a huge transition and if not tackled on time generally leads to an abnormally negative perspective, decreased motivation to get out of bed, a general sense of hopelessness and, occasionally, substance abuse.

Getting out of college actually is the most vulnerable time when a person experiences things like goal-lessness, job with no mental satisfaction, relationship failure, sudden burdening of responsibilities, symptoms of sinking health, and realization of not being the ‘special one’. So, when someone tries negotiating or convincing you by claiming that it’s a wonder ride after your pedagogical life, just know that it’s a trick. But until our colleges and universities that value the mental health of their students, come out with a plan of offering some sort of transition course making them aware of the struggles that may await when the utopian world vanishes the day after graduation, it is for you to understand that you have entered an altogether different phase of life that is susceptible to a decline in magnitude greater than the index fall of 2007.

However trivial it may sound, but it is not unchallenging to admit that one is hit by depression or is confronting a degrading personality because it won’t just sync with the charismatic and dynamic persona one has in his paradisal days of graduation. So, the guy admitting that he is depressed and couldn’t take these changes anymore and wanted to commit suicide, is actually at a head start than those who have hallucinated themselves postponing the inevitable introspection they are going to get hit by.

You know that things aren’t going the way you fancied them to be. All you need to do is, not quit.

Why to not have a Facebook Account

The not so technical and the not so ‘giving a damn’ about data leaks people can relax as this article is not about Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal of collecting personally identifiable information but is more towards how your ‘I hate politics’ opinion in the ‘Political views’ column of Facebook’s purportedly know-your-client section, is gradually changing into something that can be metaphorically described as ill-knead, naively rolled and half-baked Chapati, getting puffed towards taking shape of a country which, unfortunately, is India.

Considering the psychology of humans of hating or being indifferent towards things they don’t know about, ‘I hate politics’ opinion can be deducible to safely assume that ‘I don’t know much about our country’s political atmosphere’. It’s probably this data of number of people who hate politics (which I reckon to be in lacs), is something that must have encouraged political parties to set up their own information technology cell to shoulder the responsibility of kneading your raw brain and shaping it into a political party’s symbol. Please don’t ask how political parties know that you hate politics because for that I’ll have to go into the scandal that I promised not to.

You’ll, I suppose, will appreciate the fact that the efficiency, these IT cells work with, is directly proportional to your hatred towards politics, your lack of political knowledge, your inability to differentiate between an authentic and a fake news, and in some cases your dependency on bizarre political memes as your life support system. Needless to say that the number of people hating politics is so large that it provided a dream platform for the employees of these IT cells to cash-in brownie points for their annual appraisal. Soon, political discussions began to trend, unauthentic news and fake information took over, and people with ‘I hate politics’ opinion felt left out and deemed tagging themselves with a political party as an absolute exigency.

Not that I don’t advocate having a political opinion but this, unfortunately, instead of making people logically aware of their country’s management, created a lot of adamant, non-compromisingly opined, and close minded nincompoops. It was to my surprise when I met a guy who didn’t know the Indian State where Godhra is geographically located (Yes! Such people exist), was into a textual altercation with a person supporting a different political party than him. To add to this trauma, instead of questioning their elected representative, they have voluntarily taken a self-imposed obligation of defending the political symbol their brain has transformed into.

The IT cells have redeemed so much out of your half-witted debates and baseless political discussions of defending your choice of election that if I say that the current era of political power can be summarized as manufacturing controversies to polarize voters, it won’t be completely inaccurate.

The problem with having skyscrapers of political opinions on foundations hit by an acute attack of shallowness, is allowing the unscrupulous political parties to thrive for eras one after the another, distancing our nation yet again from an unimpeachable management and virtuous representatives for a generation or two. Now that our country again is in election mode, and these IT cells again will be into the fully fledged business of shaping your unscholarly political mind to their advantage, deactivating your social account, the timeline of which is suffering from an unopposed encroachment and making way for yourself to scroll down the timeline of independent India will account for a major contribution on your part for a better tomorrow.

PS: I have not yet touched the ‘3-seconds-share’ thing. That’s altogether a different issue.