P.Govindharajan. M.L., M.phil (Youth welfare)
DIG, Prison (redt…)
Nature is so benevolent that it has embedded the required energy in all living beings to excel on the earth. A tiny seed has the power to penetrate the rough soil and the hard rock and grow so high to touch the sky. The ever green Banyan tree stands as a proof for this nature’s wonder.
All living organisms have the power to reach its zenith, human beings are not an exemption to it, believe that nature has given youall the potential to grow according to your wish. Nothing can stop you when you have the firm determination and a will to succeed.
Psychologists have proved that nature never waits for graying of hair and wrinkle of old age to create records but what is required is unsatiated thirst for knowledge and a will to overcome the hurdles.
Don’t think that you are too young to do some scientific invention and create history, believe in yourself, read the history of great people and their childhood achievements. Lot of innovation has been made by youngsters in all fields.
A little boy from Mangudi, a small village in Tanjore District was appreciated for his outstanding performance in studies and experiments, London science journal published his research paper when he was only Eighteen years old. He was awarded ‘SIR’ title in the year1929 and got Nobel prize in the year 1930,he is none other than SIR.C.V RAMAN.
SIR C.V. Raman said ‘the future generation of young Indian scientists efforts and endeavor should be in Indian soil, they have to bring fame to the nation’.
At the age of sixteen chess master Viswanathan Anand created world record in the game of chess and brought laurels to our nation. The technological advancement of the scientific world is the result of the ever widening horizon of thinking possibilities, that is why UNO d eclares1990-2000 as the Decade of Brain.
Victor Hugo become a prolific writer at the age of Fifteen and Charles XII became the king of Sweden at the age of 19,Akbar the Great became the Mogul Emperor at the age of 12. So being young is not an impediment, but history proves it as an opportunity to leave the foot prints in the sands of time.
At the age of 10 James watt understood the expanding power of steam and at the same age Marconi experimented with Radio Waves.
When a school boy asked the former president and the scientist A.P.J.Abdulkalam ‘’who is the First scientist of the world?” he replied ‘’scientists invent new things, only when you are inquisitive and ask questions, you invent. Children only ask endless questions so a child is the first scientist of the world “
Every youth of today has the enormous potential to become great states man, has the knowledge to be a scientist, has the strength and stamina to conquer the Everest, has the Enthusiasm to enrich the world.