The contours of your thinking
"Teach him never to take a stand and then he will fall for anything"- You Can Win by Shiv Khera
I haven't taken to books in a while but thank God came across this quote under a part of my English project.This seems quite convincing to me and I had this thought in my mind for quite some time but only needed someone to put it into the precise quotations that will help me reach out to people regarding this in a better way.
So here it goes, while I was in my psychology class and the topic being adolescence (not to worry I wont go that deep into this at least this time but this one's related) we arrived at this concept of black, white and grey areas in which we think. What i could make out while the teacher explained was that black and white contours meant thinking in extremes and the grey contour, obviously the overlapping of the two is when we think somewhere between extremes. Here's how its related to adolescence,
the hormones in the stage of adolescence are so excited, gushing up all in the body, igniting an urge to do something and that's what makes them see the world in black and white and they live within the contours of extremism, unlike adults who just settle for decisions taken within the grey domain.
The Hindi quote," Vo jawani hi kya,jiske khoon mei rawani na ho" stands apt for this. Teenagers aspire to make revolutions and take stands and if any barrier is placed or they are told 'you cant' they succumb and take to forbidden stuff to find solace and that is exactly what Shiv Khera here meant. When he makes declarations to aspire of becoming the Prime Minister or an entrepreneur or even take a stand to root out social issues and is met with ridicule or said to think 'practically' by parents or adults who believe in settling for grey areas, it is then he submits his dreams.But this is not the only consequence. In order to pacify his thirst as demanded by his excited hormones, which he couldn't as he had submitted his dream, he reaches for finding their consolation by 'falling for anything'. This can be one of the many reasons for Juvenile Delinquency too.
I haven't taken to books in a while but thank God came across this quote under a part of my English project.This seems quite convincing to me and I had this thought in my mind for quite some time but only needed someone to put it into the precise quotations that will help me reach out to people regarding this in a better way.
So here it goes, while I was in my psychology class and the topic being adolescence (not to worry I wont go that deep into this at least this time but this one's related) we arrived at this concept of black, white and grey areas in which we think. What i could make out while the teacher explained was that black and white contours meant thinking in extremes and the grey contour, obviously the overlapping of the two is when we think somewhere between extremes. Here's how its related to adolescence,
the hormones in the stage of adolescence are so excited, gushing up all in the body, igniting an urge to do something and that's what makes them see the world in black and white and they live within the contours of extremism, unlike adults who just settle for decisions taken within the grey domain.
The Hindi quote," Vo jawani hi kya,jiske khoon mei rawani na ho" stands apt for this. Teenagers aspire to make revolutions and take stands and if any barrier is placed or they are told 'you cant' they succumb and take to forbidden stuff to find solace and that is exactly what Shiv Khera here meant. When he makes declarations to aspire of becoming the Prime Minister or an entrepreneur or even take a stand to root out social issues and is met with ridicule or said to think 'practically' by parents or adults who believe in settling for grey areas, it is then he submits his dreams.But this is not the only consequence. In order to pacify his thirst as demanded by his excited hormones, which he couldn't as he had submitted his dream, he reaches for finding their consolation by 'falling for anything'. This can be one of the many reasons for Juvenile Delinquency too.
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