Ample of wealth, lack of success.

"You would never find the cake delicious, unless you have tasted the sour soup."

The importance of something is only valid when you are aware of something that stands as a comparison to it. We can never understand what it is to be successful unless we are aware of what it feels to be a failure.
Failure, I believe is an essential part to be successful.

For an instance, there is a boy I know who has never faced any difficulties in his life and cleared all his obstacles with ease. Family background/business of this boy provides him with an easy, set aback life. He wasn't good with academics. He wasn't enthusiastic about almost anything. The aim of his life was only to spend more and more money. And in spite of being the richest guy amongst his sort, he wasn't successful.
My point in giving this example is that this boy is completely unaware of not only the realities of life but also the aura and vibe of the atmosphere of struggle. He doesn't know what it's like to be a part of failure or to have caused a failure in one or the other part of his life. Since he is completely naïve to this part of life, he looses the opportunity of experiencing the happiness of success.

When you get everything with ease and there are minimum of obstacles splashed in your way, the real meaning of life and the felicity of reaching your goals after a great deal of hard work and determination skips you. I believe that in spite of all the day to day hustles and chaotic lifestyle, one should always be open and welcoming to the hindrances prevalent in its life. Considering it as a part of it, would definitely lead you to reach the ultimate goals destined for you, not only in terms of materiality but also spiritually. And with spirituality I don't mean religious satisfaction or something of that sort, rather I mean an achievement of self - satisfaction within oneself.

Often success is taken in accordance to money making or material benifits earned anyhow. But I personally believe that not all rich and wealthy people can be designated as successful people. Yes, they are rich and they can afford almost anything they want but if they are not educated, or noble in their manners then they aren't successful. The actual achievement is when you, through your hard work and unbreakable determination lead yourself to a place where you used to see yourself few years back.

Ambition, when taken in correct connotations give you the ultimate pleasure to be reaped. Taking always into consideration the contrast of being successful and being optimistic about it makes an atmosphere full of positive vibes, which actually fulfills all your aspired ambitions.
Often people take "ambition" in a very rigid manner and keep a typical sort of attitude towards it. They take failure in negative intentions which breaks the building blocks of the goal they were about to achieve when they were motivated enough about it. These people focus on getting the best 'always' which is not possible if we point only towards humans and are not talking about people from some other planet.

Balance is an inevitable necessity of human life. It's like a teeter-totter in which there is a plank in the middle on which we sit through out our lives and when we tend to move a bit more towards one specific side, things imbalance.

Hey mom, you won't understand...

Love, affection and compassion is prevalent in all relationships, whatsoever they are. But as we talk about relationships another thing which needs consideration is "generation gap".

It's a well known concept defined by each in their own manner. It doesn't have a subjective definition. When we talk about an age gap, the first image that comes into our mind is a gap that prevails between parents and their children, which is because this is the gap which no matter what the situation implies, each one of us face. Now, this parent-child relationship is a very crucial one. Where the children live their lives being care-free and with a constant complaint of not being understood, the parents from the beginning itself live their lives in constant fear. We always blame them for not letting us do what we want and for not letting us have our freedom. Yes, they are scared of losing their child to wrong paths and this is because they have gone through this age and are definitely more experienced. On the other hand, while we live in this generation and are experiencing the day to day hastles, the pressures of peer groups, the never ending competition and the heavy load of studies, it becomes difficult for the parents to understand our situations. Then they come up with a very usual dialogue," we also had a youth, we were also young and we know what it's all about" whereas in real they actually don't know what its all about.

"We've also completed our education but we never used to boast about the  competition."
Here comes another favorite dialogue which becomes an irritating element for those of us who are struggling with their studies each day. The level of competition which we have to deal with is completely beyond their understanding and its not their fault because no matter how much you are aware of the current affairs and the cut offs and the hikes of the universities, you actually don't know anything until you experience it yourself.

Being a teenage myself, I don't prefer to look at this gap in favor of my kinds. I want to throw light upon the issues that our parents face because of this as well. In such a fast paced and self enclosed lives, we tend to forget the difficulties that our parents face and the fear in which they live, the isolation which we have made for them. Time and again we make them realize that they know very little or nothing about us. They want to know a bit more and we focus on hiding a lot more. We have enclosed ourselves in a shell which includes our friends, boyfriend or girlfriend and peer groups. It becomes a big deal for us if anybody says anything about our parents, " Don't you dare utter a word about my mom or dad." It seems so good to speak these words, but if we look at it a bit more closely these words only imply a meaning when we to some extent understand them in terms of our behavior to them as well.

What I believe personally regarding this part of our lives is that we should always maintain a communication level with our parents. Miscommunication always lead to misunderstandings. No issue is that big which could not be solved through communication.

Generation gap does not end with this parent- child relationship, in fact it begins from here. There are different types of generation gaps such as grandparents- parents , grandparents- children, sister-brother. Even a 2 year difference can create a huge gap. But all these relationships requires an altogether different realm of thought, which differs from this very initial generation gap between the parents and their children. 

Pangs of disappointment.

Disappointment, whether it be in love or otherwise brings out a very different kind of emotion- an emotion which doesn't have an explanation. No doubt, its a consequence of expectations or rather high expectations, which is natural and a basic nature of human beings. A question which I frequently ask myself regarding this topic is that from where do these expectations come from? Why do they come? What is the reason behind it.?

Even at times when you try to avoid expecting, somewhere deep down consciously or unconsciously you are expecting. Ignorance again is one of the mainstream path to curiosity. When you tend not to expect certain things from some certain people, the very moment you are expecting.
 When it's about some events, for instance results, most people throw out these dialogues when asked about their expections, " I am not expecting anything" or "I don't know how I did in my exams, so don't ask me about my expections. They are nil." or one of the favorite dialogues, " I did not do well, I am just expecting to get passed this sem". Most of them, or rather all these dialogues aren't in any way true, while speaking them we are secretly expecting some marks according to our performance in the exams. Then another question pops up in my mind.. If we are expecting some marks, then why do we utter these dialogues when asked about expectations? I think and have noticed not only in others but in myself as well, that these have been there and are there only because of a sense of fear and for a requirement of sympathy as well as unexpected appreciation.

Apart from these events, in terms of love, the expectations and their wish of being fulfilled is too high. Time and again we come across the phrase of unconditional love,which I personally believe is a myth. When you love someone, you assuredly expect, if not anything else but at least the same love back from them. Along with this, people expect affection, care and an immense intimation with their partners. All these are expectations which have high fulfilment expectations and when this fulfilment is not achieved, there comes into picture 'pangs of disappointment.'

These disappointments then helps in the strengthening of friendship bonds. One good point about disappointments is that no matter how much you try you can't keep it inside, you need someone to share it with. Then we catch hold of our closest of friends, ask for advice and try to get some sympathy.
It's finely said by Jane Austen that,
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
              -Northanger Abbey.