Life is not all beer and skittles!
By Peter8585
@Peter8585 (15)
Germany
July 5, 2010 9:52am CST
Enjoying only the bright side of life, forming your lifetime like a great party and having a merry time everyday. However life is not all beer and skittles! In the following sections I will elucidate this matter more closely, amplify why many teens like to live like this and explain my personal opinion about it.
If I hear things like "hopping from job to job and date to date" it sounds fun and awesome at first. No real liabilits and the word responsibility isn't any of your concern. You can collect a lot of experiences of life and have fun while doing that. Change your abode whenever you want and how often you want and live your life like a defying adventure.
Another thing is that you don't have to care that much about your friends cause they understand you for sure and it will just be fine for them if you see each other once in a while. Some youngsters might even stay at their parents' place and save even more money this way. But still consider that this way your relationship with your friends will most likely be superficial. It's simple and fun at once.
Hence there will be bad things as well. During this happy time they don't learn what it means to grow up and act like an adult. They are just stuck in a gap between maturity and being a teenager. All what these youngsters do is having fun and guzzling away their money for parties and some big events like concerts etc.
I cannot believe that there are humans who live a lifestyle like this and aren't even a tad unsettled. No parental action takes place, no friends do actually try to change their minds or failed by doing so.
Another big aspect that contradicts my attitude towards this kind of life is, that if you like to live liks this, it's almost impossible for you to have a serious relationship with anyone. That way a significant other stays out of question, from the beginning on and I couldn't live without someone like this, even though I'm not an adult.
So in the end I came to the conclusion that this kind of life is absolutely nothing for me and whoever dwells like this, didn't really understand the true meaning of life. In my opinion I would never ever want to have a lifestyle like these youngsters do and rather move on with my life, little by little and overcome every tiny or tall obstacle which lies in my path. Life is more than just having fun and doing the same all over again without taking any responsibility or only a part of it. It's a process whose level is changing with the time and I want to adapt to it!
So what do you people think about this topic?
2 responses
@jennyze (7028)
• Indonesia
6 Jul 10
Wow, so deep. I remember struggling to get more money when I was younger, to be able to finance my college. I am just shaking my head now when looking at teenagers acting as if they are the owner of the world, as if their future is established for them already just by getting around with the beauties and the handsome and the partying kind of people of their age. Well, it is their life. What we can say?
@Peter8585 (15)
• Germany
7 Jul 10
What we can say? It is rather what we can DO. We just can't sit down here and act the way we did all the time. We have to influence every single one of our tiny folks. Let it be cousins/friends/small children/sons/daughters. Let's just try to lead them to a way they will not regret to have taken at all!!!
We, the adults are in the position and in the spot to change something. We do HAVE the capabilities and necessary amount of intellect to change something. I am deeply moved by Jenny and Tiara, please elucidate on!
@jennyze (7028)
• Indonesia
7 Jul 10
Yes, we can do that all. Lead them by example so they will think of their future as early as possible, prepare them to have a positive thinking, arrange them to have good influential friends, and so on. Still, they are human, they have minds of their own. And if they did not make any mistakes, they would never learn. So sometimes, with several teenage nieces and nephews, I gave example and if they contradicted me, I just let them did what they thought were right. When they made mistakes, they would come back to me saying: Auntie you were right.
@Peter8585 (15)
• Germany
7 Jul 10
Well this is indeed a very good example and it makes me happy to hear that you have been/are a good example for the youth nowadays. Well I know that I kind of belong to them as well but sometimes it just bugs me to be part of nowadays' youth due to the several ocurrences we have..I don't think I need to mention any particular event, just take a look around and read the local newspaper and you know what I am talking about, that is a matter of fact.
So if we keep on to design our life with a certain amount of sense and care then I think things will or rather must improve cause the way it is right now can't be held and it just gets worse generation by generation..
@ElicBxn (63595)
• United States
6 Jul 10
gee, do people really live like that?
did I???
I kind of don't think so, because I went from high school to college to looking for a full time job Never was much of a partier
I guess tho, that some people may look at me and say - well, she never grew up, she doesn't have a family, no children, no responsibilities... Oh well, I guess that's true, but I also never have to worry about my sons or daughters coming home with an unwanted child - I SPAY my "children"!
@jennyze (7028)
• Indonesia
6 Jul 10
ha ha ha. A friend of mine decided not to have children. She and husband said: What for? We will raise them and nurture them and got headache because of them. Then when we get older, they will put us in a nursing home and be done with us. So it is better to live on our own and save money for the nursing home of our choice.
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