“ Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.”
Laura Schlesinger
What by then is values?From our Christian living subject values is defined as something we give importance to that’s why we do things whether it is right or wrong to show how significant that thing is.Values help you to distinguish what is right from what is wrong and inform you on how you can conduct your life in a meaningful way.
Today's youth are embarking on a new era of things the previous generation didn't have. Technology is moving so fast that changes the face of activities that our youth partake in. Even with all the new gadgets, games, cell phones and texting, our youth sometimes look to be a generation of the "bored". This is likely because video games, all that texting, and hanging with their clicks, they are becoming a generation with the ability to create their own bubble and their different social world.This is what our generation today gives importance to.I mostly laugh observing people holding their phones while walking or staying long hours in the internet café that is way different from what we typically see as a place where we look people in the eyes, shake hands, talk face to face and know what is right and what's wrong.
Today's youth are the most sexually promiscuous generation ever, engaging in sexual activities as young as 10-11 years of age, with teenage pregnancies the highest ever and on the rise. Youth participation in criminal activities are on the rise and offenders are getting younger and younger. More and more children are becoming involved in violent crime and even organized crime. Gangster ism is alive and well and thriving on the backs of ever younger and more impressionable members
Scholastic standards and academic prowess is plummeting among the youth and more and more schools and colleges are experiencing discipline problems. Under aged drinking is a huge problem, so is drug abuse and obesity. The list is endless and the picture bleaker and bleaker as the years go by.
Growing up in a society that teaches tolerance, not moral standards and behavior, but tolerance; as accepting differences in behavior and standards without right or wrong. They are taught to stand for nothing and as a result they fall for anything. "You are entitled to the way you feel and no one can tell you that you are wrong and you should express your feelings...", sounds familiar?
We allow a teenager to make a decision on terminating the life of a child, without having the emotional maturity or understanding to even begin to comprehend the magnitude of her decision. We accept sexual promiscuity as a fact of life and teach them to be "safe", squandering their precious gift of virginity, having no grasp of fidelity or what it takes to make a marriage work.
We teach them that only winners are acceptable and thus they will do anything to win. No one wants to be a "loser".
Today's society is one where the boundaries are non-existent, ethics a word in the dictionary, truth something our parents used to believe, constant change to be desired and the pursuit of pleasure the way to go. Everybody wants to be happy, no matter the cost, invariably at someone else's expense.
Our children enjoy rights, with no responsibilities and ever dwindling accountability. They are seen as individuals and taught to act and plan accordingly. The result: a supremely selfish generation that indulges in irresponsible and destructive behavior.
The culture they live in is loosing many things that are important, and the youth brought up in that culture are a mere reflection of this fact.Certainly the moral value in todays generation is lacking and generations will be confused about their ethics.
Yet the youth of today is not lost but, sadly, they are almost forgotten. In order to ensure and secure moral values,teachers and parents play a vital role and need to take initiative in helping them to be a true citizens with moral values. Let the adults of our country stand up and demonstrate strength of character and integrity, so that, when they are gone, the nation will not disintegrate, but grow. Let them have the courage to say what needs saying, so their children will hear, and never live in fear. Let the youth of this nation become a generation of change.
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