Am i the only one who notices the very negative perspective of life in our youth!
Question: In school, everyone seems to hate everything. Complaining is overwhelming. Ironically, I suffer/ed from depression and i am the only one that i know of to despise this. Is it the current generation, the age (senior year of highschool), the situation (average student class), or another factor?
Answers: In school, everyone seems to hate everything. Complaining is overwhelming. Ironically, I suffer/ed from depression and i am the only one that i know of to despise this. Is it the current generation, the age (senior year of highschool), the situation (average student class), or another factor?
Depression and mental illnesses are seeming to become rather popular in our age group, I think. It's pretty bothersome to me, particularly when some idiot in the hallways whines that they're sorry, they're "bipolar" and can't help but act the way they do. It happens way too often, and it bothers the hell out of me.
I do think part of it is the age group and education's role in it; in my AP American Lit class, we are delving into the Romanticism, Idealism, and Rationalism stuff and so, so sadly it is a lot of the students' first encounters with anything of any intellectual depth. We've just barely brushed the surfaces of Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe and already kids are complaining that it is too much for them. It is pretty damn disappointing. They are finding the material to be depressing, "not fun", too hard, when realistically this stuff is asking these kids to think about life, and not just live it. Yeah, it can be depressing as hell. But we should be exposed to it at a much earlier age and come to some sort of peace of self before we reach the turbulent years of high school.
This generation and its conveniences are what are facilitating the shock of maturity and its intellectual responsibilities. Expediency is all we care about as a society; the not-so-minor details such as the questioning of purpose and role in life are overlooked as mankind marches along. When kids are finally faced with the notion that perhaps life isn't what they think it is, it is disconcerting. For good cause, too... but I do believe we need earlier exposure and a swift kick in the ***.
You can manage your own feelings. Take time out for yourself. Be still and contemplate beauty of things around you get inspired and write or paint just be creative mayhap there is a music or art teacher or someone whom you admire what they do perhaps you should become a helper or volunteer there are many people who might need your help, and then when you feel useful and needed you will realize what a big difference you make in other people's lives, you can start with yourself, then your family, school, neighbors, community or even the net. Just a thought.