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Skybird · 04-07-10, 05:40 PM

Don't want to be young again now, I think that my age group (I'm 43) had it much easier in it's teenage years, and also more friendly future expectations. I also think that school (in Germany) was better . Of course, back then we did not realise it, but now when I'm looking back, I know it better.

For those being young now, the job world is much more complicarted, and their economic existence will be much more at risk from beginning on. School is worse today in quality, no doubt.

After WWII, our grandfarthers and fathers tried to rebuild the world. Today, the young one live in a world where our civilisation is eating up itself. And the burden of the demographic change is put on their shoulders additionally to the greater problem to found a family today. In Europe, the social states sooner or later will be so very bancrupt that they will start to eat their own populations directly, or indirectly.

In my last job, there was a constant fluctuation of schoolgirls and -boys jobbing, and during breaks I talked with them and listened what they said about their school experiences. And more of them than back in my own school times, were afraid of the future. No doubt, my generation has had it much easier when we were young.

Within the influence sphere of the EU, I would not raise children these days anymore, if this would become an issue. Family for me only when being able, economically, to move out. But that this will become a scenario, is extremely unlikely anyway. That gives me a lonely life, which makes me sad at times. But it saves me from the worries more and more families these days are facing. And that is a relief for which I am thankful.

No matter how you live, there seem to be almost always some good and some bad in it, and no matter how well you live, there is a price for it.

I therefore have invested my few free ressources - and those bigger ones that will become free in case of my death - into the future fate of the children of very close friends of mine, with whose family I am very close indeed since long time now. the mother used to laugh at me and called me a pessimist. Meanwhile, she does not anymore, and stopped laughing.

For parents of children, this must feel especially grim.

The earlier generations after WWII had it more difficult? I only laugh.

04-07-10, 05:40 PM	#10
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,615 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Don't want to be young again now, I think that my age group (I'm 43) had it much easier in it's teenage years, and also more friendly future expectations. I also think that school (in Germany) was better . Of course, back then we did not realise it, but now when I'm looking back, I know it better. For those being young now, the job world is much more complicarted, and their economic existence will be much more at risk from beginning on. School is worse today in quality, no doubt. After WWII, our grandfarthers and fathers tried to rebuild the world. Today, the young one live in a world where our civilisation is eating up itself. And the burden of the demographic change is put on their shoulders additionally to the greater problem to found a family today. In Europe, the social states sooner or later will be so very bancrupt that they will start to eat their own populations directly, or indirectly. In my last job, there was a constant fluctuation of schoolgirls and -boys jobbing, and during breaks I talked with them and listened what they said about their school experiences. And more of them than back in my own school times, were afraid of the future. No doubt, my generation has had it much easier when we were young. Within the influence sphere of the EU, I would not raise children these days anymore, if this would become an issue. Family for me only when being able, economically, to move out. But that this will become a scenario, is extremely unlikely anyway. That gives me a lonely life, which makes me sad at times. But it saves me from the worries more and more families these days are facing. And that is a relief for which I am thankful. No matter how you live, there seem to be almost always some good and some bad in it, and no matter how well you live, there is a price for it. I therefore have invested my few free ressources - and those bigger ones that will become free in case of my death - into the future fate of the children of very close friends of mine, with whose family I am very close indeed since long time now. the mother used to laugh at me and called me a pessimist. Meanwhile, she does not anymore, and stopped laughing. For parents of children, this must feel especially grim. The earlier generations after WWII had it more difficult? I only laugh. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.