As humans we all go through the process of growing up to become successful at something we aspire with great desire, independently. One of the phases of this development is puberty and adolescence where we find ourselves in the middle of leaving our childhood innocence behind in order to become self sufficient and authentic adults. This segment of life in humanity, and in general, identifies our true beings by how we tend to react to obstacles, and finding ways to solve them. While trying to figure out the way out of problems presented on the course of our life, we find ourselves depending upon our backgrounds, our pasts, our social communities, our beliefs, our families, and our set goals to make the decisions according to our points of view, and depending on each circumstance. As a personal experience, I can say that being young, in my environment, in particular, is a challenge for most of us who are willing to take the risk of over passing all boundaries crossing our paths to become what we want, and accomplish great things with limited resources.

The education offered in the society I live in focuses on providing youth with a general understanding of an adult life, and how to make this future suitable to the needs each of us has as well as the things we want. This is why I consider our education tough, and also because it’s a way of saying that we, the preceding generations, should follow certain criteria in order to have a successful future, but only "successful” in the eyes of adults. This is a process repeated though out times where knowledge is delivered instead of learned. There is also the pressure of competing amongst each other to achieve first place instead of cooperating to construct bigger and more valuable products. On the other hand, the education that actual generations receive makes our lives easier if we look at it from a different perspective. My education in particular, offers a place where we not only have to perform academic tasks, but have fun, and express our opinions on different circumstances. This mix of activities encloses the characteristics that a human being should have in order to be recognized when we work with tenacity, and give our personal best.

Family is one of the most important factors that should remain stable during the times of adolescence of one of the members of the family. Relatives are the only ones who support the youth today. Today’s youth is characterized by having everything, but boundaries, and gratefulness for their parent’s hard work. On the other hand, most parents show minimum commitment that a young adult should receive. This causes society to get out of balance since young people grow up to be a group of unprepared and disrespectful people where sons and daughters don’t follow instructions, and parents are most of the time not there to be role models for them either. In the new generations, there’s also a loss of family values for this reason too, where parents are more aware of what their children wear than their internal beings. Shifting point of view, there are also a vast majority of families that keep traditions, and adapt to the new century, as well.  These families, like mine, are well-formed homes where parents still have authority, and care for their children. The way homes are managed is one of the most important factors that determine one’s future because this is where you receive the basis of your personality and way of being, but most importantly you learn how to love and care for others.

The social life of a young person is crucial since this is where we prove the strength of our values, and learns how to interact with others. In this society where I grew up, for example, alcohol is great problem for youth. It is considered a beverage to have fun, and get loose. People start drinking when they become twelve, and think that getting drunk is the only way to enjoy a party. This happens because of peer pressure with the group of friends we create. This is why, socially in this case, being young is pretty hard because you worry about being part of a group, and not being left out but in the process we lose our integrity when we accept social rules that become part of our lives later on, such as drugs. Few are the people who stand up for what they believe to protect themselves; many others who aren’t strong enough to say no. Looking at my generation from the bright side, I can say that all of us have grown in an environment of freedom that enabled us to become free thinkers, tolerant, and open minded.

As for the national problems of youth, I can say that the greater one is inequality of opportunities. Eighty percent of my population has little or no resources to become successful, and the other ten percent obtains the needed resources to keep on being successful, and remain on top of the economical pyramid. Public education offered is of low quality due to the fact that constructing knowledge is no a priority for governors because they may get more votes from people who are less educated. This creates a higher rate of ignorance and youth does not help the country progress, as it should.