The Season I like Best

In Bangladesh there appears a new season at a regular interval of every two months. Thus in a year we have six seasons in Bangladesh. They are the summer, the rainy season, the autumn, the late autumn, the winter and the spring. In the cycle of seasons, the spring covers the months of ‘Falgun’ and ‘Chaitra’. Of all the six seasons, I like the spring most. It is called ‘the king of seasons’.

My favourite season is the spring. The spring comes with ease and comfort. It has not the damp and humidity of the rainy season, nor the sweltering heat of the summer, nor the biting cold of the winter. The sky is blue. The south-west wind blows.

With the coming of this season, nature herself puts on a gay and lovely look. The charming [কমনীয়তা] scenes of new leaves enchant the eyes. Various kinds of flowers bloom in abundance. Their fragrance change the atmosphere. Butterflies move from flower to flower. Their variegated wings make a sight for the eye. Bees come in swarms to gather honey. Their humming music fills the air. In fact, spring is the season of music and melody. The cuckoo hides in bushes. The ‘bou kotha kau’ draws the mind. Coming after the winter-harvest, the spring brings for the farmers plenty and happiness. During this season people are generally free from want. Our poets are very much fond [অনুরাগী] of the spring. The infinite variety of its charms have made them fly ‘on the wings of poesy’.

Coming after the winter, the spring captivates the hearts of the people all at one. Though it consists of two months, its actual pleasure [আনন্দ] and spell last only for about three weeks in ‘Falgun’, So when summer follows, people bewail its hasty departure.

Students and Social Service

Society is an association of all classes of people with common interest, aim and principle. Students are not isolated from society. So, as members of society, they are obliged [বাধিত] to perform certain [নির্দিষ্ট] duties to society. There are many kinds of social services and students have a lot to do in this sector.

Student life is the period for education and training. It is not desirable that students should waste their time and energies in affairs other than education. But living in a developing country like ours students have to render [সম্পাদন করা] certain services for the development and progress of the nation. Students are in the process [প্রক্রিয়া] of learning and they can share their acquired knowledge [জ্ঞান] with the illiterate [নিরক্ষর] and deprived [বঞ্চিত] citizens of our country. They may run night schools and teach the poor and working children as well as the uneducated adult people. If that is not possible, they can at least teach servants in their own house. They can also provide advice on earning methods, for example, whether to dig a pond for fish cultivation [চাষ] or to make a farm. Students have duties towards society no doubt, but they should not remain always preoccupied with these. They should render social services during leisure time or during long vacations.

Students can take part in raising awareness [সচেতন] regarding [সংক্রান্ত] population problem. Population is growing in geometrical progression. If this growth remains unchecked the economic security of the country will be at a stake. The illiterate people of our country are full of prejudices and do not feel the necessity of family planning. Students may come forward to remove these evil conceptions of the people. They can teach people the problems of over population and should encourage [উৎসাহিত] them to adopt the measures of family planning.

Students can teach people the rules of health and sanitation [স্বাস্থ্যবিধান]. They can teach them how to reduce [হ্রাস] pollution and how to lead a healthy life by staying neat and clean. A large number of people suffer from various diseases. The students can teach these people some basic treatments for diseases like dysentery and small infections.

Students can prove to be worthy during natural calamities [দুর্যোগ]. In times of flood, famine, cyclone, earthquake and epidemic [মহামারী], they can come forward to help the people in distress. They can collect food, clothes and medicine and distribute [বিতরণ] them amongst the people in need.

There are many other duties that students can perform as conscious citizens of a country. But not all students are aware [সচেতন] of their duties. To save the country, every student should come forward with a helping hand. But in doing so, they should not forget that proper attention should be given to their education.

Discipline

Discipline means going by law and system. In order to do anything successfully, discipline is a must. Discipline is the precondition to success in life. The more a society is disciplined, the more developed they are in different fields of life. So, we can easily say that the most disciplined nation is the most developed nation of his world. We should first realise [উপলব্ধি] the value [মান] of discipline and make our young generation feel its essentiality [অত্যাবশ্যক] in life. But discipline should be practiced right from early in life. Habit of discipline cannot be formulated in a day.

Discipline should start from early in the morning. We should practice getting up early in the morning. We have also to take some physical exercise for keeping fine. Without discipline, we cannot have a good start in the day’s work. If one student doesn’t prepare his lessons well and attend his school in time he will cut a sorry figure in the exam. Again if there is no discipline in the family, the family will not run well. The office will be a scene of chaos [বিশৃঙ্খলা]. Likewise, a society will not function without the practice of discipline. So, each and every, society has got to follow the laws, rules and regulations.

Lack of discipline results in the complete chaos and confusion. Even the animals in the forest go by some natural laws for their existence. Lack of discipline reminds us of the situation where the animals fight with each other till death. Without discipline the society will cease to exist. Lack of discipline hinders our onward movement and makes us stagnant. Without discipline, a student cannot complete his education successfully. Discipline will save unnecessary wastage of money, man power and time. Being a poor country, we cannot afford the wastage of time, money and other resources.

Discipline is the root of civilization. Strict adherence to discipline takes one to the summit of success. Again, a society falls down into the abyss of darkness by indulging in indiscipline. Indiscipline is, in other word, lawlessness. Society and progress are synonymous and go together.