Tas Talks Tuesday: The Youth & You

Hey you! How's it going? As always, I hope you've had a good day and if not, there's always tomorrow :) So today's topic is about the youth. I was inspired from an English cover lesson that my class had not long ago. We had to write a magazine article based upon a statement saying how adults feel that the youth have a much easier life than they do. If you're a teen yourself, I hope this gets you thinking. If you're an adult, I hope your mind allows these views to stick with you.

Let's begin.

Why don't we start off by being honest about the stereotyping of the youth. Some teenagers live up to them right? The whole gang crime, cursing out loud in public, getting disrespectful to elders and others, creating commotion on public transport etc. Some teenagers do this. Some. Not all. So how dare the "adults" criticize our wrong doings and blame it on an age group as a whole.

How is life easy for the youth today? The fact that we have smartphones to always find "an easier way". How is life easy for the young generation? The ones who hate themselves for even being created. Everyone faces challenges, some more than others. Everyone has something to fight for, so who are they to judge a book by its cover.

Most adults claim they know it all because of their age: the fact they have lived longer than the rest of us teenagers. There is no denying that yes, they have had a longer life full of experiences that we as a teenager may not have come across yet however, how many times have we heard the phrase "I was your age once". Now obviously everyone older than us was our age once logically speaking. My question is, did they have it as bad as us youth back then? Most adults think that the youth have it so easy because of technology. Maybe domestically speaking we do, but financially, educationally and socially, life is not exactly a walk in the park.

Now no one said life was going to be easy. Easy living is simply impossible. Struggles are common nowadays. The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting poorer too. A struggle is like being upset, you never want to admit it to others. Who would? For those adults who say that the youth have it easy is wrong. We're constantly fighting. Fighting to not fall in this continuous stereotype that is permanently placed upon our heads. 

What's so easy about a life where you despise the way you look? Your weight, your skin colour, the texture of your hair, the shape of your eyes, skin problems, the length of your nose, the idea that being beautiful means to look airbrushed every single day because when you don't, you're "butters". What's so easy about a life where it's hard for the common teenager to get good GCSE and A-level grades because exam techniques are always changing, grade boundaries are always changing too and most importantly, not being able to retake exams that you have failed in. What's so easy about a life where yes, social media is popular, but the consequence of this popularity results into cyber bullying. Cyber bullying links to self harming, suicide. All of this links back to your appearance because of your high school cliques, being called a "moist chick" because you wear 'old trends' and your so called friends are two-faced and in the end you don't know where to go. You don't know where you belong.

Because all of the above is the easy life, right?

We should be grateful for what we have because someone else could kill to have an ounce of what we own. I understand this. You should understand this. But let's be honest. You don't know how a struggle affects somebody. You don't know what goes on "behind the scenes". That girl or boy you see at school, smiling every single day, may have a family member battling with a terminal illness. Struggles are on-going and endless. The youth are constantly trying to represent themselves in a much positive manner. How can we be positive when there is so much negativity and lack of support. Thank you to the adults who support the youth, who recognize the effort some of us make. Yes, some of the youth need to fix up, but you adults are our role models. You fix up too.

I'm going to end this post with a quote,

“Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody. ”  

 

 

Is it too much to ask an adult for support?

Thank you for reading.

 

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