People are always talking about the problem of youth. If there is one, whick I take leave to doubt, then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Lets us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings--people just like there elders. There is only one differece between an old man and a young one: The young man a golorius future before him, and the old one has a splendid future future behind him Maybe that is where the rub is.
When I was a teenager, I felt that I was young and uncertain, that I was a new boy in a hugh school, I would have been very pleased to be regarded as somthing so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem give you certain identity., and that's one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.
I find young people are exicting. They have an air of freedom, and they have no dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life and the origins of things. It's as if they were in some sense cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous and fatuous, but I don't turn for protection to dreary cliches about respection for elders---as if mere age were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him as an equal, if I think he is wrong.
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