A Generation In Crisis.

I think I can guess what you must be thinking.... “The Youth are in Crisis”, "Another fight, and at (a “good school”, which is a topic for a whole other discussion) that's all they ever do!" “They all need locking up” These are the cries which come from older generation to this generation. My question to the older generation making these statements is, Are we that different from you guys? 

I think not. There are similarities between the things which happened back then and things which happen now. Perhaps these things present themselves different ways, but still quite similar. I have heard many stories from my elders about their time growing up and while in their prime. Some of their experiences included fighting at school, mischievous activities like stealing from a neighbor's fruit trees, smoking, drinking, early pregnancies and a host of other activities. Many people who were punished for participating in such activities are now condemning and chastising others for doing the same things.  Are any of these things more wrong now than they were, say forty years ago? If your answer is no, then why all of sudden is that we are in a crisis and generations before us were not? If your answer is yes, then clearly there is a double standard that should not be.

It’s not my intention to justify or sensationalize the fights, bullying, vandalism, drug use and all other questionable activities which go on in our communities, schools, buses and bus terminals etc but these are incidents which have ben occurring for years now. If these very same activities are wrong now, then they were definitely wrong during the years that have gone by.

The only difference between then and now is technology in my opinion. With the introduction of social networking, camera phones etc, Incidents are more easily recorded and broadcasted. My theory is that had they been such technological advances back then, the same very things which we are put down for would be happening. This generation is described being violent, lawless, even worthless and so many other colorful adjectives because we fight and our females become pregnant at young ages. But were these things not going since I don't know the beginning of time? 

Instead of painting a picture of this generation as being the spawns of the devil himself, why not think about where we would have learned a good set of things which we do. Think about who raised us. Condemning and ostracizing does no good for anyone. These methods have not been working so I do not understand why people continue to use them and think that will get through to anyone. They only cause thing to get worse as young people continue to rebel and act up. No one ever wants to feel like they are the absolute worst and why that concept is so hard to grasp, I would never understand.
People should take a step back and look in the mirror before pointing fingers.