“Our
youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show
disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no
longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter
before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.” Can you
guess who made this statement? The youth has been totally taken to task by the
person who quoted these statements. Keep guessing while we get into the details
of the article.
There
have been a lot of complaints on the youth today by the elders. Now what's the
age where in we should treat someone as youth has become a big question for
many. People of age 45 are being called as the symbol of youth, the youth icon,
young leaders and so on and so forth. Even the children who start their
teenage are considered as youth nowadays with facebook allowing people above
the age of 13 to enter the online world. However, only the youth can be the
saviour of youth of such comments. The youth always feels that the elders are
there only to blame the youth. They aren't in sync with the new modern age that
the youth is in today. Hence they feel that whatever the youth does is always
wrong. Coming to the manners, discipline and respect, the elders always feel
that the youth isn't up to the mark. While saying 'Hi!' is a mark of respect
for the youth, it's totally unacceptable in the adult community. The trends
have changed. It's a big question as to when will the aged accept the youth or
the youth live up to the expectations of the elders. So how long has this cold
fight between the youth and the elders been happening from?
With
the changing times and the growing number of new innovations the lifestyle of
people is continuously getting modified day by day. The old customs and
traditions are being challenged as the new day jobs are much more demanding and
contradictory to the lifestyle of the olden days. As a result of all these
changes in the situations the behaviour of people is also getting affected and
every generation is seeing a new trend that's much more liberal than that of
the previous generation. Probably many of you would have guessed that the quote
at the beginning of this article was said by some person who belongs to the
20th or 21st century. Some of you might have even succeeded to take a name from
18th or 19th century. But I was shocked to learn that this quote was quoted by
an ancient Greek philosopher, Socrates who lived between 470 B.C and 399 B.C.
The youth has been complained about for more than 2400 years now.
So,
you being a youth, do you have any answer for these complaints?
