When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard”, 

                                                   I am always tempted to ask, ”Compared to what?”

                                                                                                        Sydney Harris

Oh life…Oh life…Life is the only thing worth having…You don’t feel it now. But one day when you are wrinkled, you will feel it. Oh! Realize the beauty and worth of your life while you have it. Live! We can never get back our life minutes! Life is a dream and a romance; it is horror and a nightmare. Life passes quickly, it is only a flash of a moment. It leads us through smile and cry. Man’s life consists of some stages, and when different generations face each other some problems are born as the young and the old are different worlds with their own laws. Relations of children with their parents and with the whole world have always remained a very important problem in our society.

Youth is great plans for the future and the beginning of outlook. Youth is a period when we look into our hearts, and we find there images of our close people and there is a place for each of them, bright and calm. Our heart gets warm and works harder, transferring blood and supporting our precious life. Sometimes we look into the distance and dream about the unknown that is so far and inaccessible. Youth is time when a person is trying to find his place in the world. And during this "travelling” we come across different storms. They concern education, money, career, hobby, spending free time.

 Appears a desire to fly away. But the lack of courage and confidence prevents. We are sad and merry. Our sadness is a night sky full of stars. Our joy is a wonderful sunny day. Love presents thrilling feelings. It is impossible to find the most exact description of feelings which overwhelm us at that wonderful time. Life becomes a fairy-tale when we reach the age of Romeo and Juliet. Romanticism accompanies the life. We believe that love will last forever, but very often we are heart-broken. But it doesn’t mean the end of your ‘miserable’ life. Don’t be so naive. Build your own world and give yourself a chance to love and be loved there!

Another problem of young people is drugs. Everything starts with curiosity, usually they just want to try, soon they become addicted and in a year or two many of them will die. It is cruel truth. And there is no medicine to help you in the whole world. Don’t allow minutes of phoney delight to trick you out of your life.

 Youth is time of freedom, dreaming, innumerable number of ideas and plans about their future family and lucky career. But problem of unemployment hits the young the hardest. The percentage of unemployed youth in the total number of the jobless is high. It's not an easy task to make the right choice of a career. You know we have a lot of dreams about our future - to become a superman or a singer or a doctor …everyone wants to be on his feet. It's very easy, we think, but we are mistaken. So if we want somehow to get a job, we should make careful plans for our future when we are still at school. But nowadays young people wish to live like kings. They think only about the ways of creating their career, becoming prosperous and forget something important that makes a living being Man- human relations and family values that cannot be bought with all the money of the world.

Youth have hard moments sometimes, but parents always try to plan our lives. They choose clothes, schools and even friends for children. Parents still think we are children. They don’t understand we want to be independent. We are tired of overcaring. We believe in happy time of changes, our inner dawn. The young have an aspiration to change everything around and to make a different world! We derive joy from more freedom. At present the young do not blindly accept the ideals of their parents. For us everything that the adults bear in mind is an ancient history. And this is inevitable, because different generations take different directions. Moreover, the young look forward and the old people look backward. Some people often speak about the so-called "generation gap" that is а gap in views between parents and children. The adults always teach the young how to live. They apply old standards to a new way of life. The past is hanging over us preventing from appreciating the things around as new ones. We are young and think that the adults have lost touch with everything that is important in life. We suppose that we know what we want. We prefer to make our own mistakes rather than to listen to the warnings of the adults. The past exists to help us to avoid unnecessary blurs. But we do want to have them and want to live our own life. We want to overcome our own difficulties without turning back. There is a complete lack of self-confidence during this time. 

On the other hand there are a lot of families where parents neglect their children. Children need love and care, and if they are not cared for and have too much freedom they want to do something exciting and sometimes it can draw to lamentable end. Parents have to explain what is good and what is bad. The old give the training ground to children’s aesthetic foundation. The life we lead must be worth living.

To be young is art of life. Youth is unselfish in its intentions and feelings. We, young people, are so sincere in our thoughts and wishes, we dream about being a creator of our own life. It is necessary, of course, to teach any child, but parents must know it is useful for themselves to learn from their children, too. The best way to make children good is to make them happy. But very often parents forget about it. Adults consider youth irresponsible, wild, rude and illiterate. They dislike everything: from the habit of dressing in a strange way and making extravagant hair-style to the manner of speaking. As for young people, they find adults dull, old-fashioned and senseless.

Every new generation is different from the one that precedes it. Today the differences are especially considerable. The adults always believe that they know best only because they have been around a bit longer. They don't want their values to be doubted. The young, on the other side, are questioning the assumptions of the adults; they suspect that the world created by their predecessors is not the best one. This misunderstanding gives birth to a small pit between two persistent mountains, two different generations. Mountains as Mother and Child hug one another. But later this harmless pit can turn into a deep abyss caught by gloom and pointing fear, and it makes majestic mountains feel loneliness. The dull depth of the abyss swallows warm rays of family love. And only Happy Spring Rain of tolerance can unit two mountains under one umbrella. 

It is not easy to save fragile values of any family, but everything in our hands. Both it is easy and difficult, on the one hand, it is easy because we are close, on the other, it is difficult – the society is changing, the life becomes harder, family values waste their importance. But if you don’t believe your family, you don’t believe yourself. The family is an agitation, a tremor, a care... the best place to learn true love.

A family is very important and don’t put it out with absurd and worthless dissensions. Families give us а sense of tradition, strength and purpose in our lives. But the most important thing of а family is to give an emotional support and a sense of security. People of different generations have something to learn from each other. We must avoid quarrels and look for consent. We must remember about spiritual values and all people should live in peace and harmony. All the young are new people, different from their parents. Parents have to remember that they were children too and must bear responsibility for their children. The only way to solve this problem is to be tolerant and thoughtful for both the young and the old. Everything has to be balanced.

Life is a combination of light and dark stripes that makes your life more valuable. As they say, "If there were no clouds, we would not enjoy the sun”. Only when it costs you some effort to overcome difficulties you begin to value every spark of passing life. And you understand it will be better to make your own fire than to scold darkness.