Age of Maturity and Indian Teens

Age maturity is not all about staying out at night, doing late night parties, doing what your heart desires, or in the worst sense, going to bed with whom you want. Maturity is a contradictory term in contrast with the Indian society. While the freshers in this teenage are termed as pre matured, teenagers of 18 and above are tagged as matured.

This span of 5 years (13 to 18 years), a child comes across innumerable feelings and emotions and even gets the knowledge of several unknown "processes" and is lead through a synchronized way of knowing life. Being a guy of the same age even i too faced such situations which i am mentioning further.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the three lettered term filled with intense curiosity, "Sex". This word is so much attractive that most of the Teenage minds revolve around it pulling out several "double meanings on trivial issues" or felling the "sense of lust" for somebody by looking just once. This even leads them to feel those intense sexual desires and get into several so-called addictions

of watching porn and doing masturbation.

I'm not an Orientalist, but in this society, since we grow in predominant conservative and orthodox families we get exposures to such thoughts at a later age than the West, which is actually a good sign! But guys, the problem lies on another front.

According to some recent studies, more than half of the Indian parents avoid talking about rapes, molestations and anything related to Sex. While primary education from homes and necessary, correct knowledge of sex education from homes is also of utmost importance, as improper knowledge about sex may affect their growth process. The bold thought of independence and thoughts of living this world in their own terms comples some individuals to even voice up to get t

he tags of maturity at their age of pre-teens.

Most of the Indian conservative families tend to develop a sense of fear and guiltiness for relationships among the young minds. There is always a fear in the Indian teenagers about relationships of getting thrashed, or humiliated if caught , thus leading them to delete chats and photos of their partners. Whenever there is a tiff with the partner he or she is sure to get the hypocritical feeling of being the loneliest person in this world. They wish but cannot express themselves to anyone, not even to friends and yeah leave about parents! They may get morose, depressed, become irritated in small things and their parents tend to feel their child is changing and they are just wasting money for their children's education. All these feelings, emotions, insecurity te

nd to bundle up and the teenagers being unable to handle this pressure decide to leave this unfaithful world by committing suicide which has the highest incidence in our country India.

No one talks about solutions. But the most modest solution which is always helpful and prescribed is that the Indian parents need to come front and step down to the level of best friends and conduct friendly counselling themselves before it's too late that they need to hire professionals!!!