It’s the hot news! Everyone’s talking about little dancing star Akshat Singh who gained fame after he shook a leg and stole hearts on 'India’s Got Talent', an Indian talent reality show and also featured onthe ‘Ellen DeGenres’ show, thereafter.
Watch Akshat Singh on the Ellen DeGenres Show
It’s commendable how a boy so little is
filled with so much talent at the tender age of eight!! Another great example
of a small child with a large IQ is Kautilya Pandit, a five year ‘young’
genius, from Haryana, better known as the ‘Google Boy’ because of his memory.
Examples such as the above mentioned make me wonder if age is
just a number. We are often told that with age, comes experience and
intelligence. However often it’s the experienced elders that make mistakes and
learn from the young.
It has become human tendency to respect our elders and
probably look down at those who are younger than us. Respecting your elders is
a good value that has been imbibed in us since childhood but feeling superior
and looking down at those who are younger than you comes from within. I
recently started to learn tennis, a sport that may look easy but looks are
well, deceptive.
Since I was a beginner, I was grouped with the tiny tots and
this really put me off. I obviously didn’t want to learn along with a group of
kids, who were half my age! It was only when I saw the ‘kids’ play did I
realize how wrong I was. I started to feel inferior, in fact. These kids, who
we often underestimate, are even more talented and intelligent than their
elders!
Age is a strange concept. You look at someone without knowing their age
and talk as you would to anyone, in general. Once you get to know the person is
say, 2 years younger than you, there is a sudden change in the way you speak,
an authoritative tone, maybe. Conversely, you realize the person is older than
you, respect takes over your speech and you become more polite. Ragging and
bullying are serious issues that again come with age.
A favorite example of a little child who made it big would be
Faisal Khan, the winner of ‘Dance India Dance’, an Indian dance reality show.
At just the age of 11 he bagged the title of the best ‘Lil champ’ and is now
the lead actor in a famous TV series.
Little kids should be encouraged and motivated and not looked
down at with the thought : “He’s so small, what can he do” ? Infact, look up to
them, for all you know, they might be your next competition! It’s the baby
steps that lead to a giant leap!
By Disha Dadlani
The writer is a first year Media & Communication student.
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