Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
Youth is maybe the most important period of a man’s life. It is the time when the beliefs and morals, interests and different habits are all laid. In this very time a young person is trying to find his place in the world. But nowadays everything is not as good as it may seem. Today a young generation faces a lot of problems.
The first problem is about the family. The youth can’t be on good terms with adults. It is a so-called generation gap. Old people are always saying that the youth are not what they were. And it is true. The world is changing, the priorities are becoming different and all these influence us, the young generation. Nowadays we grow up more quickly and the majority of us are not so dependent on our parents. We think more for ourselves and do not blindly accept the ideas of the elders (it should be noted that I am speaking in general, about the majority). The old always assume that they know everything better, they don’t like when their values are being questioned or threatened. But this is what the young generation is now doing.
Another problem which is connected with the family is about the warmth and love. The tempo of life is nowadays very high and parents have to work a lot in order to provide their family with everything that they need. As the result of it – there is a lack of love and warmth among the members of the family. There are such families where parents have very cold relationships with their children, they in fact don’t know each other, they don’t know about the problems of their children, they don’t know what kind of people their children are, either they are generous or mean, either they are egoists or altruists and so on. And as the result of it children have independence; they are thrown upon their own devices. So they may lose their head and begin to do stupid things.
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