Someone once said that the youth is the future of our generation. However, in today’s society many reports in television are about youth who were involved in crimes.
What do you think is the reason for this?
As I have quoted in the Bible and also posted in another blog, this generation is characterized by individualistic passions. People are now lovers of themselves, disregarding the moral law.
The things and crimes done by youth are always and will be happening again and again because of recidivism; it is where a person always does things because they are no proper sanction to his/her actions.
According to a famous author E.G. White, living in the city is considered to be hotbeds of iniquity and troubles. As you can see in the television, some youth are involved in robbery, theft and killings.
These are one of the many challenges a youth faces in urban area which are not fitted to them.
Only three major reason or challenges a youth faced. These are coming from the media influences, peer groups and family.
Social issues concerning a youth like early teen pregnancy and pre marital sex and crimes are also rife in the city. I cannot point out what caused this things but I think this is the effect of some media technology, like internet, televisions, and printed papers.
What the youth see in television has a subliminal effect in their minds and because they saw it on television, the youth watching these medium without parental guidance will try and do what is being viewed in televisions.
Some people tend to go to pub houses to enjoy for awhile thinking that they can find solutions to the problems, but this will give them more problems. If the youth are engrossed with this, this can be harmful only to their physical life but also to the spiritual life.
This is a challenge not just in urban youth but also in rural. The effect of media in our society has a very great impact to the lives of a person.
Another thing is the life in the cities are artificial and characterized only by money getting, luxurious life, and pleasure seeking which are temporary and in vain. If a certain individual cannot meet his desired needs, chances are they will resort to illegal money getting.
Well, this is all due to the fact that they cannot cope with the life of the city which is a fast paced and everything requires money. And if anyone who is downtrodden and circumstances hits their lives, they would resort to illegal works.
Not only that, the family also plays a big factor that a youth has to face while they are in urban area.
If the parents are busy with their own business, and have no time to communicate to their children. This will cause ideally that their children are to look after a peer group that will listen to them. Chances are if that peer group has bad habits, ultimately this will be imitated by the youth.
For parents, your young child should be taught earlier not to get entangled with easy getting and luxurious life instead to meditate and give glory to God and not to enjoy their free time on wasting money in the malls or pub houses. The youth should be taught to commune with nature and to God.
When a youth are with their peer groups, there is a big chance that he will not anymore listen to the advice of the parents. And all his activities are inclined to vanity like going to pub houses. Because the youth wants to be accepted in his peer group, anything that his friends wanted to offer to him will be accepted if the youth cannot handle the so called peer pressure.
I firmly believe that a peer group has the greater influence over the parents. Why? because they are the ones that listens to the problems of their friends, they are the ones who comfort them and the youth can find relief in them basically, so, why listen to their parents who cares only to their business?
Living in the city should not be considered a hindrance in finding your success in your career. But instead give it a challenge, and if you cannot handle those things mentioned above, I suggest go back to square one. Live a simple life before you will end up a miserable life.
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