"Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity"..............
I came across this quote once i was in school....and it has stuck with me ever since.last week i happened to attend my first humanities class this semester.it was about group discussion.our teacher gave us the various topics such as pollution,impact of western culture and so on.ultimately a rather un-unanimous decision was taken and the here was the topic....."Youth today are a selfish and confused lot"......quite inexplicably pollution wasn't chosen because they thought it was 'common'....anyway......
My initial reaction was ......."you are dead right,lady........"....but then as i thought more deeply i flip sided.....as this is where i speak freely....i would like to point out that i hate comparisons....today is today and yesterday was yesterday....the word 'Generation gap'...to me is a misnomer.but still if i had to voice an opinion,..i would say an emphatic no.youth today definately aren't confused.to my peers, who contradict...i ask a simple question..."are you confused and selfish too then?".....if you are...then you must not be speaking.youth today are clever,more than our adults or others think.youth today are more of a bunch of do gooders than a group of self -obsessed knuckleheads.
For as long as human hair has turned gray, elders have looked at their successors and frowned. "Children nowadays are tyrants," goes an old quotation widely attributed to Socrates. "They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." In 1855 a professor at Davidson College described college students as "indulged, petted, and uncontrolled at home … with an undisciplined mind, and an uncultivated heart, yet with exalted ideas of personal dignity, and a scowling contempt for lawful authority." Albert Einstein opined that while classrooms are many, "the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small."
i took the help of the internet to gather these opinions voiced by great people against youth.criticism of youth is inevitable,but so too is change.the world is changing,that too at a pretty fast rate.yes,there is a gadget today in every kids' pocket,but that is the world for you...the new world,the changing world...those who refuse to accept the changing youth,refuse to accept change....and the world would not wait for such people...."Survival of the fittest" is life's mantra now...nobody gives anybody an inch of space....and if the modern youth has to curb certain natural instincts to keep up then it should be understood...not branded as 'selfish and confused'.our ancestors did not have to cope with the kind of competition we have....infact,what is being unselfish?....i would like to know...doing a lot of social work?....or bubbling with patriotism?....i really don't know.nobody pulls up anybody and unless we prioritise things which meets our ends we may well end up starving to death.it's as simple as that...and if that is being selfish,so be it.i don't care.
right my friend shaswat interrupted me....and FIFA is a much more tempting option...haha...i believe i did not do complete justice to the topic....i could have put it better....but the very idea of calling my genre selfish and confused sounds ludicrous.....Manchester United toyed with Arsenal...these punctuations are a pain in the ass.....rooney and nani was fantastic...it was my first experience of following a match on match tracker and it was wierd but cool......anyway,i really need to sign off before shas showers his wild wrath over me...................
i agree completely!!!!
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