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Date Posted: 12:24:35 01/18/04 Sun
Author: Brad Gerdin
Subject: Re: So is youth wasted on the young?
In reply to: Josh 's message, "So is youth wasted on the young?" on 10:09:31 01/18/04 Sun

This is a very interesting thing to ponder indeed. It seems to me that the young don't have a clue how good they have it when they are just "youth" in our society. They have no real appreciation for being "youth". They just want to grow up as rapidly as possible. Now that most of us are 20 or close to it, we can suddenly realize how good we actually had it when we were just "youth". Now we have to fend for ourselves and can't rely soely on our parents. If we only knew what we do now 10 years ago, we would be able to appreciate what we had a lot more. So, I don't know if it is wasted persay. I would just say that the young people in our society are ignorant of how good they actually have it.

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[> Re: So is youth wasted on the young? -- Marty McGoey, 12:52:07 01/18/04 Sun

Me being the philosophical type, I believe that youth is the learning process. The reason you are blessed with your youth is to examine the world around you. With the pressures of post-modern society, people tend to break away from their learning experience. Though the saying, "You learn something new everyday," still applies to almost everyone, youth is an especially exciting time because we don't feel the pressures of society and are free to use our creative and imaginative genius to think up new explanations to the meaning of life. Robert Frost once said that he wrote his best poetry between the ages of 15 and 25. It is in this period that the mind begins to understand the basic concepts of adulthood, yet is free of the pressures of it. Granted, the youth of today are usually ignorant, but this is all a part of the learning process. After every year of schooling, I look back to the beginning of the year and find it hard to believe how ignorant I was before that year. I find it difficult to look back because I realize how incredibly stupid I was. The real question is, if every year we develop our minds more and more fully, what then is the limit to our youth? When is our youth over? Though every year we take on more responsibilities, how can we ever be sure when those responsibilities are at their limit? So to answer your question in a nutshell, youth is not wasted on the young, but everyone is too stupid to appreciate it.


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