The only thing that remains constant is Change. Society
is in the continuous process of change. And those who are adoptive to change
fit the best and give the best result like said by Charles Darwin in his theory
‘Survival of the Fittest’. But, the challenge is to adopt all those changes for
the betterment of the individual, society and the world. World is a global
village now. Due to the rapid increase in new technology, influence of people
in different social networking sites like Twitter, facebook, Linked in etc,
communication is much more easier and sharing, exploring of the knowledge,
views was never easier like now which makes it evolution of new era. Not only
every individual can speak, can express and make a network of likeminded people
but also they have influence in various political, social, economic,
developmental sectors. Egyptian revolution even known as Twitter revolution has
proved the power of social media and the youth and their involvement for giving
new direction to the scenario. It won’t be wrong if we say the world is in the transition
phase right now.
Talking about the year 2011, Turmoil in the Arab world, deepening crisis on financial markets,
disaster in Japan were the major events of 2011 and these events directly
affect the present world we are living and the future we will be creating. The
revolution in Arab shows the end of the tyranny from the World and increased
people conscience for their rights to live in democratic way. It also depicts
the power of youth, power of people and power of social media. Another
influencing person to be known for youth is most prominent youth leader Camila
Vallego, 23 years, of Chilli who led a movement for better access to quality of
education that had paralyzed the country and shattered Chile’s image as Latin
America’s greatest political and economic success story. She is the icon for the emerging youth leader
who gave message to whole world that we necessarily should not follow the old
outdated trend, we have to stand up and start acting for the new change for
betterment. It’s the demand of time for youth to be the part of change and lead
the various sectors including politics.
Because of the fluctuation in financial
markets, many people lost their jobs and their struggle for lives is getting
severe. The gap between haves and haves not are increasing. The wealthier people are living more sophisticated life
where as other people are going through more hardships. The Wall Street movement
in United States of America was one of the results of this crisis. Due to new
technology people are getting more platforms to share whereas due to decrease
in value of money people with lower income rate are living miserably. What can
we do to bridge between those different people who are having sophisticated
life and those who are in poverty level? We have to act to decrease the
barrier, to uplift the underprivileged group. Though human wants are unlimited
and problems are not going to end but we have to take in account that every
people should live the life with basic needs of food, shelter, clothes,
education and infrastructures etc. World is being materialistic but if we don’t
start thinking about humanity wisely now then a huge accident can occur and we
may not even get a chance to regret. Now the time has arrived to think
rationally and act globally so as to achieve the millennium development goal
which is not so far.
Everything
is unpredictable and it is always that nature is the supreme power. The heart
rendering Tsunami story of Japan says it all. Just in a blink of eye it can
destroy everything and we don’t have any option then facing it and moving on.
Many natural disasters, earthquakes are welcoming us in the future which can
bring massive changes to the mankind. Though we don’t have full power to control
the nature but our act does help to decrease the loss and the preventive
measures will protect the environment. Global Warming is the major
environmental problem and if we don’t act soon it will be too late. With
modernization, we are bringing many things which deteriorate our lives. It is
the time to make everything natural and help earth get its natural state.
Though its not possible to revert but our development plan must be
environmental friendly. The non renewable sources of energy should be used
wisely or other alternative sources of energy must be created. We must priorities to create
alternative sources of energy rather than preferring non renewable sources of
energy and Its time to follow 3R - Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
seriously.
Youth today in the world are facing some common major problems
like Unemployment, substance abuse, generation gap etc. But for the youth of developing nations the
list of problems is longer like political crisis, lack of
infrastructure, education, health, facilities etc. Youths today are in the
state of chaos, the pace of development is so fast and it is a major challenge
for them to adopt themselves to this change. It is even tougher for the youths
of developing countries who lacks various facilities and has to compete with
all those youth around in this global village.
Being the youth of the developing country like Nepal, I
can say that we have lots of hopes, dreams not only for our life but also for
our country and for the people of our country. Seeing other people of the world
enjoying 21st century with modern technologies and facilities
fullest, we also dream for that and often saddened by the differences of lives
we dream and lives we are living. Those who is tough enough to accept challenge
and believe in changing dreams in reality work hard to make it real in various
sectors like social work, Engineering, Business, Politics etc and remaining
either go abroad for jobs or stay in the country with lots of dissatisfaction,
complains and frustration. After facing the conflict of about twelve years our
country itself is in the state of chaos and it takes time to change gradually. Youth
need good environment, employment opportunity and motivation to stay in the
country. Political stability also plays the major role. For providing platform
to their creativity, program like self employment should be given priority for
the skilled manpower and necessary skill based training should be provided to
the unskilled people. Besides that, in developing countries society has lots of
superstition, orthodox values, social taboos which are unscientific, not
relevant but still in practice and these practices became barrier to the
individual’s better life. It is also the major challenges because those
traditions are into practice since hundreds of years and can’t be changed
easily. It should be taken into account that unless social structures are not
modified, it is very hard to bring new ideas of development and adopt the new
practices of the world. But it is the time to awaken and make ourselves free
from those superstitions, those old outdated values and adopt the new concept
to prepare ourselves for the competition to deal with whole world and make it
the better place to live.
Nothing is going to change in one blink but with the
constant effort, motivation, passion and unity. We can achieve what we desire
for ourselves and what we want for the future of our world. Tomorrow is not
promised to anyone and if we want to make a change
then we must start it from
today, right now. After all we are the youth, the change maker.
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