The youth are considered, the most energetic stage of human life. It is a transition age that provides a refreshing entrance to the world. Education, romance, responsibility, and innovation become the major boosters of youth whose ambition is to create a unique personality before the end of their life journey.
Sri Lanka is a country providing free education for the youth through universities.
With the remarkable beginning of the Ceylon Medical School in 1870, it has been able to cultivate the fruit of knowledge within the youth allowing them to enjoy its sweetness even beyond the seas.
The personalities of J.R. Jayewardene - (former President), Professor Ediriweera Sarachchandra (playwright, novelist, and poet), Kumar Sangakkara - (renowned cricketer) Yogendra Duraiswamy, (former Sri Lankan diplomat), just to name a few provide a considerable justification to that.
Accordingly, being able to enjoy the fruit of knowledge without spending a single penny, was inculcated into the mind of the youth as a prestigious opportunity.
The Sri Lankan youth are exposed to grab this opportunity after facing the Advanced Level Examination which offers a cut-off mark signifying the entrance to visit this prestigious venue called “Government university “. It cuts itself off from the ordinary youth in the country, with the label “you grabbed the fortune to have a free education in this developing country.
Obviously, that particular moral hits into the minds of that prestigious youth isolating themselves in front of a heap of hopes endowing a gown, degree certificate, and a considerable amount of money to survive in the country as a stable, proud daughter or a son in front of their poor parents. That heap of hopes becomes the key driver for most university students to leap toward the success of their university life.
That was the obsolete narration until 2020. The deadly, natural intruder ‘Corona virus’ suddenly came into existence and persuaded the youth to hide their beautiful, refreshing smile with a mask. Soon, it grabbed the physical freedom of university life and imposed the restriction “Stay home “. However, the Sri Lankan youth were strong enough to accept it with an innovative mind. They gradually started to pile up their heap of hopes inside a digital screen, brightened with a smile of tolerance, welcoming the ‘new normal ‘in a formal way.