By Debalina Mukherjee
“His best companion, innocence and health. And his best riches ignorance and wealth. How happy he who crowns in shades like these. A youth of labour with an age of ease”These words were said by Oliver Goldsmith.
A teenager has the best of both worlds.If a teenager commits a mistake he or she is easily forgiven. Well, it is something to alin to, enjoying the fruits of adulthood without having to shoulder its responsibilities.
The best thing about being a teenager is that the elders and teachers take then seriously. Their individuality is respected and are taken for granted. Their life tends to changeA change is observed in their life. While beng children they wee asked to go and play while something important was being discussed, being a teenager they are often called up togive their views and opinions. This boosts their confidence and generates the feel of being important. In this stage may teenagers bend towards various sports and activities which in future becomes their profession as well. This is the stage when they get opportunity to excel in different fields. The can enjoy abandunt freedom without worry. But besides this they have to take may serious decisions of their life as well that can have a major effect on their future.They have to sit for various competitive exams as well. They always have a keen desire to achieve something big. The spirit of challenge and competition makes them more energetic and enthusiastic. They learn to be patient and to endure many things.They are least afraid of new challenges and accept life the way it comes. They can learn new things very easily.Teenage life is full of new experiences.They can accept and adopt new environments very easily. Maturity develops and a sense of responsibility grows within them. There are many examples where people have chosen their professions based on the passions that they had during their teenage like. Namely ,Sourav Ganguly and Sudha Chandran.According to me this phase can be called the golden period of anyone’s life and it should be thoroughly enjoyed before its brighness fades away with passing time. This is the time to gather knowledge and get ready to accept opportunities and swore like a golden eagle in the deep blue sky of learning and tend to fly through imagination. This stage of life is just like the Autumn season when everything is very beautiful and colourful.
To conclude the teenage life is the most beautiful and crutial stage of a person’s life but just as time and tide waits for none similarly this phase is very limited and short lived.I am pretty sure that if chance is given many of us would like to go back to our teenagr life and remain there only. But sadly rhat is not possible..We all have great memories of our teenage life which we all will be cherishing throughout our life.Every individual should utilize it to the fullest because it comes but only once.













Do you remember your childhood when you use to sing that beautiful song ‘Anek chidiya ‘?today ,like the ‘chidiya ‘,the song has become almost extinct!even birds like the commando sparrow,which we used to see in large in numbers,are scarcely seen today.these ‘chirpy little fellows ‘ that used to delight us onces upon a time should now be named ‘Sorrow’ instead of ‘sparrow’. That is what their lives have become. Full of sorrows! Human beings have no mercy for them. They shoo them away. They do not allow them to make nests on their balconies Or terraces. Rapid urbanization has resulted in cutting down of trees. This destroyed their natural habitat. An over – Abandunce of vehicle and factories have polluted the atmosphere. We have erected mobile towers and use cellphones, the vibration of which, distrub these birds.how do we expect them to live in the concrete jungles that we have erected? We have changed the entire infrastructure around us. We have paved the roads. We have tiled the areas around our buildings. Where are the green areas? As a result these little friends of ours have escaped, no more return. Trees provide our friends, the sparrows, with fruits and insects to eat. Now they are facing an acute security of food. It is for us, human being, to take more efforts to make things easy for these birds. We could provide grain or food for them to eat outside our balconies or windows. We could provide them with little boxes in which to have a dust bath. How enjoyable it would be to see these cheery little creatures flapping around in the mud! More importantly, we could plant more trees. Is anyone reading out there? Will anyone heed their plight and take necessary steps to help them? Otherwise these friendly Birds are facing extinction! The lifestyles of the people has been changed and they are no longer environment or Bird-Friendly. So this is our responsibility to do something for that little one. Just think about it! This is the small msg from that little sparrow–🌠Dear friends, I am little sparrow and how helpless I am? In fact, my name should have been ‘sorrows’ instead of sparrow, because Human beings have no Marcy on us, little birds that we are. They pollute the atmosphere and erect mobile towers, making it impossible for us to breathe or live. They cut down trees that are our natural habitat. Tell me, where we expect to live? In the past, the trees provided us with fruits & insects to eat. Now, however because of deforestation, we are facing a scarcity of food. I wish human beings would take more efforts to make things easy for us. They could provide us food & shelter. They plant more trees. These are our expectations from you people. Will they heed our plight and take necessary steps to help us? Otherwise we are facing near extension! Thank you all!

