"The world is changed by your example not by your opinion"- Paulo Coelho
The example or the ideal which one follows in life directly corresponds to his/ her persona as people often tend to imitate their ideals in every possible manner, be it their dressing sense or their thought process. Thus, it is very important for one to have that perfect role-model as one's inspiring ideal. But today if we factually discourse concentrating upon our young citizens, unfortunately majority of them precisely seem to have failed in getting their Ideals right, as a result of which many of them are enticed into wrong habits like drug abuse, road rage etc. And this failure is observed to be clearly evident in day-to-day increasing incidents of sexual harassment, drug abuse, suicidal acts, and many more problems which are lucidly visible in the contemporary society. And because of which the deteriorating condition of our existence is pleading for change. Yes! An acknowledgeable and beneficial change which only the youths of the Nation can bring about, by themselves being the exemplaries in their respective areas for others to follow. But for this they firstly need to themselves wake up from the sleep of ignorance, be all aware of the surroundings, polish their skills and abilities and widen their mind-set to be able to differentiate between the ' Good' and the 'Bad’ and then take a strong stand against the wrong. All this would further require a huge amount of hard work not on anyone else but on one’s own self.
To convey the same message and prepare the youths for this extraordinary change, the Karkardooma and the Vishnu garden centres of Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan founded/mentored by His Holiness Ashutosh Maharaj ji under its social initiative, Drug Abuse Eradication Program (Bodh) organised their exclusive monthly Youth Workshops in month of the March 2017 on the themes- “Be an illustration” and “Seed in, Weed Out” respectively. These workshops via insightful video presentations, lectures, skits, fun activities and live demonstrations helped the youths learn how to nurture their lives with seeds of healthy lifestyle like optimism, confidence, courage, humility, compassion etc and remove the weeds like drugs, ignorance, bad company, peer pressure, laziness, impatience, uncontrolled use of social media so on and so forth so that their journey of growth into a maturely balanced individual is not obstructed. Also it helped them realise the potential of the inner strength they possess and the difference they can make with it if they give this strength the right direction. They were further educated on how this well guided direction would unify the power of all awakened and responsible youths of the country who are now ready to take up the battle against the social evils that have seeped into the society today and further create an undefeated wall against the social evils.
These workshops successfully changed the “I don’t care” attitude of the youths into “I do Care” attitude and reinstated in them the deter to use their youthfulness that unfailingly carries the power to reshape the world in a positive direction and be ideal examples for others to follow.
