As children we all have people that we look up to. People that we idolize. People that we admire and that we wish we could be like them. Since we're only young it's sort of like our duty to receive positive inspirations and when asked about what we want to do with ourselves give a response in the likes of "I want to be a doctor" or something. It's not like anyone takes our musings seriously anyway, but to us these first impressions are dead serious.
For a child to receive a positive inspiration is easy. He could just see his mother or father working and say "I wanna be like them when I grow up". The difficulty comes when the child starts to grow. When the child gets older and it begins to understand and better perceive it's surroundings. That's when it's "inspirations" need to be steadier than ever.
It's easy for an idol to crumble. And when that happens, when a child loses faith in what it believed in (or, even worse, if it finds out it was a lie), it can be difficult for it to believe in people again, let alone idolize or find inspiration. This especially can't be helped with the teenage generation when everything appears much bigger an issue than it really is.
The only answer to this is for the children to be able to have faith in their idols. No matter the difficulties they need to be able to look up to them and communicate with them. A healthy parent-child relationship is exactly what is needed for the next generation to be able to steadily take it's place.
Eventually those children grow up to be the ones that will be admired. It is the previous generations duty to guide them, help them out however they can and show them the way so they can eventually become strong people. People with confidence that know their path in life and will use all their previous experiences to their own benefit.
But, taking a good look at today's generation, one can't help but feel a little sad. At the legacy left to us by our predecessors and by the one we will leave to the ones that will come after us. Children of rich families unable to communicate with their parents and turning to drugs and alcohol. Poor children not able to create a future for themselves or that are forced to leave their friends and family behind to go abroad. And the situation is only going to get worse.
At the end of the day, all we have is each other. And we need to let each other know as often as possible. Because knowing you'll always be welcome, no matter how much has changed... That's what having a home is all about.
For a child to receive a positive inspiration is easy. He could just see his mother or father working and say "I wanna be like them when I grow up". The difficulty comes when the child starts to grow. When the child gets older and it begins to understand and better perceive it's surroundings. That's when it's "inspirations" need to be steadier than ever.
It's easy for an idol to crumble. And when that happens, when a child loses faith in what it believed in (or, even worse, if it finds out it was a lie), it can be difficult for it to believe in people again, let alone idolize or find inspiration. This especially can't be helped with the teenage generation when everything appears much bigger an issue than it really is.
The only answer to this is for the children to be able to have faith in their idols. No matter the difficulties they need to be able to look up to them and communicate with them. A healthy parent-child relationship is exactly what is needed for the next generation to be able to steadily take it's place.
Eventually those children grow up to be the ones that will be admired. It is the previous generations duty to guide them, help them out however they can and show them the way so they can eventually become strong people. People with confidence that know their path in life and will use all their previous experiences to their own benefit.
But, taking a good look at today's generation, one can't help but feel a little sad. At the legacy left to us by our predecessors and by the one we will leave to the ones that will come after us. Children of rich families unable to communicate with their parents and turning to drugs and alcohol. Poor children not able to create a future for themselves or that are forced to leave their friends and family behind to go abroad. And the situation is only going to get worse.
At the end of the day, all we have is each other. And we need to let each other know as often as possible. Because knowing you'll always be welcome, no matter how much has changed... That's what having a home is all about.
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