Distractions acting in our teenage!

 Teenage basically represents the time period from 13 to 19 yrs. Everyone is aware of this time period, how distracting it is and we are well aware of this fact also, how immature our mind is at this particular phase of life. As a result, we usually get distracted and our focus and goals gets drifted.

Well, it's quite natural and everyone goes through this phase of life but the important thing is the way we adapt to this phase. If we pass this phase without being distracted from our goals, then we may achieve our goals but if we got distracted and our focus shifts then the life may suffer, so, we should spent our teenage properly in a right way, spending time with right people, avoiding nuisance etc.

Let's jump into the basic distractions that a student usually faces during the teenage.

Attraction towards opposite sex;

As it's a phase during which there is hormonal imbalance in our body, our body organs are in the phase of development and are under the influence of hormonal changes and hence our body as a result is in the phase of adapting these running changes, as a result, there is natural imbalance of sex hormones like androgens, estrogen, progesterone etc. Because of this imbalance, we usually gets attracted towards the people of our opposite sex. This is quite natural but we have to control this urge i.e we need to overcome this distraction in order to focus more on our studies and our goals. Now, in order to avoid such distraction, we need to put more efforts on our studies, skills, sports etc. We need to spend our time doing meditation and yoga for peace of our mind. I know it may sounds something spiritual and sanyasi type but trust me this avoids the distraction upto a large extent and it also increases the focus, strength and make you more progressive towards your future. You can also spend more time with your family, friends and loved ones in order to overcome this distraction.

Social Media and Internet;

Internet being the basic necessity these days is acting as a villain in the life of a student. At one side, internet is an important source of knowledge and learning but on the other hand it is the basic cause of destruction and distraction as well. The main distraction in the life of a teenager is the internet and social media apps. Students spent most of their time surfing rubbish over the internet and waste their precious time that is needed to be spent on some productive work or on studies. Social media is just leading a child towards a delusional world that appears quite fascinating and wonderful without making the child realising how disgusting it's net results are. So, in order to tackle this problem and to focus more on studies, I think the student must make a distance from social media and avoid the use of internet as well. Instead go through the books in order to solve problems. 

I agree, if there is availability of technology we should use it. On internet we can found everything in just one click so what's the need of surfing and wasting time over books? Now, just ask yourself some questions, 

Whenever you start surfing internet for just one question, how much time you literally spent over internet? 

Do you search only that question and leave internet then?

 Don't you get distracted towards social media apps like fb, instagram etc everytime you start surfing the internet ?

Now depending upon your answers you can conclude whether you are addicted to internet or not. If not, then you can use it but for learning purpose only. The main thing that must be focussed here is the excessive use of social media. 

Curiosity and Peer pressure ;

In the teenage life, our young blood boils and we are very much curious to know about different things. We want to try new and new stuffs that may make us cool in the eyes of others, which is basically just a product of our immature mind. As a result of this curiosity a number of teenagers gets introduced to some destructive elements like alcohol, cigarettes, weed, cocaine etc and as a result starts destroying their career, future, infact their whole life. And along with this, there is the friend circle that acts as kerosene in the fire. Friends makes you curious and then make you try these stuff by just a little saying, "ek se kya hi hoga" means "what one will do" and when this one gets converted to many, you don't even realise. So you have to stay away from these harmful products and choose friend circle wisely.

Introduction to the adults elements;

In our teenage life period, there are maximum chances of our exposure to some adult elements like p*rnography, s*x, masturbation etc. Everyone is introduced to these terms usually during the teenage days and because of lack of self awareness and incomplete knowledge about these things, a teenage get so much interested into this and it ultimately  affects the mental, physical, psychological as well as biological life of teenager. 

Everyone is very much known of the taboo of s*x education in India and many other countries as well. This never lets the child to openly talk about the terms like s*x, p*rn etc and hence because of curiosity and eagerness to know more, child start spending most of his time on internet watching and searching such explicit content. This is also one of the most common distraction faced by most of teenagers. A very important role here is played by the group of so called immature friends who themselves know nothing but will act like they are the scholars of s*x education. And we, like their followers found them quite intellectual personality, who knows everything and start doing the same shit.

Now to avoid this distraction try to study books regarding s*x education instead of watching x rated content online. You need to understand s*x is just a biological process to sustain life and nothing more than that and knowledge of it is also needed but making yourself habitual to p*rn or some other obscene is not beneficial in any way.

Conclusion and my opinion;

As teenage is the time, when we are exposed to a new kind of world, we are just unaware of. This world is responsible for our development and our progress as well. But on the other side we also gets introduced to numerous harmful things as well. So in order to prosper we need to choose the stuff wisely. We need to understand what's right for us and what's not. I think the best way to know and understand this whole picture is the books. 

Books are something you can completely trust upon. We can find everything in books and trust me nothing else can be a better source to avoid distractions. 

We can also take the help of our parents as well as our teachers for such basic education. Try to interact with your parents as much as you can because most of the distractions usually gets demolished whenever we talk and express them in front of our parents.

I had shared this all on the basis of my own personal experiences and lessons I had learnt. 

Hope you all will have a lovely and bright future ahead!

Love and peace!