They Follow Their Own Standards!
(Some Unwritten Rules In Your Teen’s Book)
If Your Boy Is Like Mine…
The constitution of India (or actually read a teenager’s world) recognizes and declares the following to be the rights of all its members.
Revised version(2024–2025):
Author: Senior member and counsellor of the Youth Rights Committee.
Members:
As young as ten are permitted. The upper age limit has not been mentioned in our manual as some people stay as young as 18 all their lives!
Right no. 1:
The first rays of the sun hits this planet for us at around mid morning. We(the youth) believe that our bodies could start working (if at all they have to that is) the best, from this auspicious hour. And oh, we are tired of listening to you parents telling us the Brahma Muhurtha stories that say it is best for a human to wake up at 3. 30 am(yikes!) to receive divine blessings!
Hence we are allowed to laze around on the bed till noon.
Right no.2:
We are not half as emotional as our fathers or fore fathers. Hence “What is there for breakfast?” should be allowed to be the first few words of the day.
Don’t expect us to say “Good morning mommy!” instead! I feel like a kindergartener that way.
Rule no 3:
Reading the newspaper, watching Tv, surfing the internet etc., are some of the activities that are allowed for us before brushing. Please don’t give me that lecture of “your- teeth-will- rot-away- if- you- don’t- brush- as soon as you wake up” nonsense. Yeah, I am mindful of my hygiene and that’s why I am not coming near you.
Rule no 4:
Yes, we are special! You are the one who has been reassuring me the millionth time you love me and that I am precious. Remember?
If that is so, surely we are allowed to leave my plate and cups around after my breakfast to be cleared by you?
Rule no 5:
Now who says that studying is the natural flow of things that should happen after completing all morning ablutions? This is an irrational assumption. All the time you parents keep saying that I would have to become a farmer or something if don’t study well. Actually, that’s not a bad idea, if it can give us liberation from the most annoying assignments!
Hence we should be allowed to stay away from books as long as we can.
Rule no 6:
Adults (read parents) seem to be narrow minded. They only talk about nutrition in broccoli, spinach, carrot and beans. They carefully pick up scientific evidence from the eighteenth century to support their arguments. When will they update their books? Have they got any idea how much nutrition is in Chocos for instance? Or Maggi? Did they know that the fruity loops and Gummy Bears could make you so strong that you aren’t dying anytime soon.
So we should be allowed to ignore vegetables!
Rule no 7:
I don’t understand why some things are more special than others. More important than others. Thus the uniform is somehow more important than a swimming trunk. The I card is more important than my Cricket Attax card. The school sock is more important than my sports sock.
This discrimination must be removed for the benefit of the whole society. We should be allowed to ‘lose’ these special things without unforeseen circumstances like punishments.
Rule no 8:
Playtime is of utmost importance for the mental as well as physical well being.
Hence we should be allowed to extend our playtimes as per our will without the fear of a curfew.
Rule no 9:
Sleep time shouldn’t be at 9.30 pm. It should be at a time when your body and mind allows you to do so. This translates into midnight for most of us! Talk about setting the biological clock. This is the petition we’d like to put up to the higher authorities who set our GMT for us. I know you wouldn’t like us to sneak in when you’re having your Netflix time. But please, it’s physically impossible for us to sleep as early as 9.30 pm.
So it should be allowed for us to sleep at midnight.
Rule no 10:
Finally…and lastly please let me live in this 21st century! And please let me own my own smartphone, tablet and every other digital device that the modern times have to offer.
So it is declared hereby that we are allowed to own and use as many digital devices like (smartphone, tablets and smartwatches) as possible! Every individual must possess his/ her own device with unlimited access to the wi-fi to preserve the mental sanity of one and all!
Bang, Bang, Bang….the sound of the gavel goes…
