Analysis Of Who Says They Have It Easier By Vernon Oickle

This article entitled “Who says they have it easier?” written by Vernon Oickle, questions the people who says the youth today have it easier when in fact, in some aspects, they actually have it harder. Despite the advantages of being born in the 21st century, like modern technology and the internet, they are simply not enough evidences to conclude such a thing. He enumerated a number of factors of how the youth has been striving to meet the expectations of the older generations and the pressure that comes with it just because one was born in this era. Contrary to what people might say, the hardships that the youth today have to suffer are a far cry from the ones the older generations seem to have had.
Parents, classmates, and society each give
their own influences to mold a child to become a better individual, but what happens if they are also the ones who trigger the angst experienced by the youth? Parents have sacrificed everything for their children since birth. They give them material things like Ipad, ITouch, laptops, and tablets. They pay for their expensive tuition fees just so their children could work as renowned professionals. They work for eight hours a day just so the family has something to eat. As a result, parents often complain that the youth today are so lucky to be born in this era and would say that the least their children could do is to graduate in flying honors. Not wanting to disappoint their parents, this adds pressure to their children; moreover, classmates or friends also play a vital role in a child’s development. Because of the added benefits of being born in this era, students are expected to have increased knowledge thereby increasing competitiveness. One could easily search the history of Rome by just typing in their desktops and searching in Google. Every source of information is in the student’s hands. Consequently, the students struggle to keep up with their classmates to get all those pieces of information in order to have an advantage thereby increasing pressure yet again. Society also expects the youth to be the future of tomorrow. It expects them to solve global issues like global warming, corruption, and poverty. It expects the youth to give solutions to all these problems just because of the resources available to them that the older generation were not lucky enough to have. All of these are a series of chain reactions from one expectation to another. This is what makes it so hard for the youth today. Everyone is relying on the youth not realizing that every expectation is like a load being added to their shoulders.
Overtime, these expectations turn into stress to surpass every challenge, limitations, and brick wall ahead of the youth, but because not everyone can shoulder these expectations or stress, some give up or have a breakdown. This is what makes the youth today have it harder than in the past. This era will prove just how much someone can take to achieve success. This era will push the youth to overcome all these problems and to turn those expectations into reality.