The Problems of Youth

The Problems of Youth

Come up to an aged person and ask him or her a question: ‘What is youth?’
And you may hear an answer: ‘Youth is the spring of life’.
Ask the same question a 35-40-year-old person. And you’ll probably hear: ‘I haven’t thought much about it yet. I’m sorry I have to go’. And a teenager may answer, that he lives in the present and that is all.
There are so many things that may influence an immature mind – either positively or negatively. And here lies the problem: youth is the time of choice, the time of search and hesitations. In youth people make revelations and discoveries.
But the world today is full of temptations that easily mislead the younger generation. It’s much simpler to take up something, that does not require any effort or hard work of young people. All possible kinds of entertainment are accessible to the public.
But it’s much more difficult to follow your own narrow winding path rather than a wide public road.
The first problem arises at quite an early age, I would say, in primary school: it’s whether to study or not? And this may be the first crucial point in everyone’s life. The choice depends greatly on the parents, and if they are insistent enough, the young guy or girl starts following the narrow path quite reluctantly.
The second problem is to carry the fire in the heart on and on. If it stops burning, a person easily falls deep into the abyss of ignorance and vice. One needs to develop and maintain the ability of self-education. And the things written above mean that education is of primary importance for the young people. Should be, at least.
They say: ‘A man is known by the company he keeps’. So the company plays a great role in the formation of a personality. Just keep good company, and everything will be fine. The problem here is how to tell good from evil? Again, the answer is: education will help you. Read more, think more, listen to the senior people, since they are more experienced.
There is a so called ‘generation gap’ problem. It also may be quite acute. But when the person is brought up mostly by the family and not by the company, there is no generation gap.
Finally, one of the greatest problems (I would call it a ‘calamity’) of teenagers is the technological problem. The innovations today have completely destroyed a lot of abilities: the ability to think independently, to memorize things, to calculate and many others. Why should young people do this if they have a powerful web search engine at hand (on multiple devices at the same time) and everywhere.
So, the problems of youth are quite numerous and they concern not only the issues of the mental development but of the physical as well. So, if you are still young, don’t live in the present only – remember the past and listen to it and think about the future.

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