Indian society cannot accept the fact that children have a mind of their own.
Children are reprimanded for doing things they like, that the elders of the society didn’t have a chance to do.
The elders need to be looked at with compassion because they were raised in the same way. They think that since they never hurt their elders, and lived a life of compromise, the next generation should do the same.
This is why the society marries off people at an age where a person would think for himself, try to make sense of the world which would enable him to break the shackles of the society.
With the pressure to adjust to a new life as soon as the individual has finished their education, they don’t have the chance to think and understand the power dynamics of the society.
The society has given freedom a negative connotation, that of unnecessary rebellion. Because most people have not fought for their freedom and they don’t see why should life be lived any differently by the next generation. A life that’s not approved by spouse/ parent/ family/ relatives and society.
They won’t be happy about others leading a different life, because compromise is glorified! And why should someone get a chance to do what they did not? When all one ends up doing is demotivating the other. To not speak out, to not get into unnecessary hassles, to not be a rebel “without a cause”. When the only thing one wants to do is live one’s life.
But the thing about someone who has read, someone who has travelled, who knows that freedom exists, is that they start getting the taste of freedom.
And they would not want it any other way, because freedom is addictive.
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