Football than through the study of The Gita. "
- Swami Vivekananda
Juvenility is that time where you are fabricating yourself for a glorious future and healthy life. From the dictum of the Youth Icon Swamiji, it’s transparent as water that the Outdoor games and sports, it is very essential for teenagers to lead a good lifestyle. A game on the field teaches us about discipline, patience, role playing, co-operation, and shares tactics along with enhances communication skills. Actually Games act as a global touchstone.
In my time, when I was in my high school,
regularly I went to the playground with my friends and we played different
games like Cricket, Football, Kho-Kho, Kabaddi and so on. Even in the holidays
we used to play in the morning and also in the afternoon. One chance to play outside of home was a gift to us." Do you know what my favourite part
of Game is ? The opportunity to play? "
- Mike Singletary
A study by Sherry et al (2001) investigating the reasons for playing video and computer games by adolescents and their game priorities on 535 adolescents in age 15-20 in the West USA found that 68% of adolescents had these games as their weekly entertainment. World Health Organization (WHO) has classified (International Classification of Diseases - 11) the gaming addiction as a disease in their 11th revision in mid of 2018 and named as ' Gaming Disorder'.
We have a system in our brain called 'Reward Circuitry', which drives our behaviour toward pleasurable stimuli like food , online and video games , alcohol etc. and drives us away from those things that we need to give more effort or energy to do like study, office work, playing in ground etc. This system of our brain releases a neurotransmitter called 'Dopamine' , which regulates the feeling of pleasure of 'Online Games'.
When you play online games your brain releases a continuous Dopamine supply. Gradually your brain gets used to this constant supply and the nucleus accumbens need more Dopamine supply for the gaming fun. Which restricts you from enjoying other things that is not as excitatory as online game.
Some blindfold people who don't want the well being of the society , are misusing the Online Gaming Media by making some dangerous games (like Blue Wheal, Momo) and compel the teenagers and youths to play those games . By playing these games, the teenagers and youths are instructed to torture own-self as a challenge. And as a final challenge they are instructed to make suicide.
As online gaming intoxication makes people emotionally detach from the family and society by locking them up in a room , they can't share their emotions to other - what is going on in their mind . Under this circumstances the evil game makers misguide the teenagers. Can you accept it - juveniles are dying like this ?
Now ,we have to give effort to stick the juveniles out from this addiction. Parents , Teachers and Government should play a vital role in this .
Parents should set a time for playing online games and keep the phones and gadgets out of the bed room( son's or daughter's room) at night that they could not play games at night. Parents ought to make a meeting regularly with their children to know about their children's problems, how their school or college is going on, what they want to do etc.
Teachers should monitor their students regularly and should give them counselling on a habitual basis. It is needed to do daily physical activities including exercise and playing games like Football, Cricket, Basket Ball , kabaddi and so on .This will lower the health risks and increase the communication skills as well as ethics also.
And Finally Government have a very important duty .They should make some new rules and regulations to limit the use of internet and play online games of teenagers and juveniles.
Juveniles are the assets of the society , they will lead the world in future . So in any cost the juvenility should not be spoiled.
Subhadeep Ghosh
