Memoirs of an Amnesiac
On Role Models
by , 04-15-2014 at 12:36 AM (2616 Views)
Growing up I realized learning need not be from oneself alone. There are practically so many things to learn. It would take a lifetime to learn them all. I was advised that in order to do this one must have three sets of friends: an older one to gain wisdom from, one with the same age to exchange wisdom with, and a younger one to impart wisdom to.
There was always somebody I looked up to when I want to achieve something. Someone I place on a pedestal for such and such character. I personally liked self-made adults. Back then, the words "self-made" were in vogue. You know those kinds who struggled through difficult times but were successful later in life? I rarely hear these words from the younger generation now.
I count on my peers for what's new. I was a normal teenager, trying to fit in. But I was always perceived as an outsider looking in. It didn't matter to me then, neither does it now. I realized one doesn't need to fit in. You need to carve your own niche somehow.
I love sharing to the young. This is what I like the most about---imparting one's knowledge, having the full courage to say, "I've been there and done that!" And mind you, the young could teach us so many things, with all their fresh and unadulterated idealistic minds.
When life seems difficult to understand, I search through the gems of wisdom I learned from these age groups. The challenges and difficulties I experience might not be the same as theirs. But I look at a parallel world somehow and figure things out from there.
The trouble with the youth these days is that they stopped talking to the adults. They are so helplessly engrossed with their peers that they lost the sense of having a role model. It's important that you have one so the trouble might be bearable, knowing that someone else had passed through the same path and was victorious. The transfer of learning is very much effective.
I fear for the younger generation--the next-in-line youth. Their challenges are greater than what they were during my time. The advancement in their mental capacities are so abrupt that their emotions are failing to keep up.
The adults seriously need to do a lot of role modeling.
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