Youth(新概念课文)

Youth

People are always talking about

‘

the problem

of youth

’

. If there is one- which I take leave to

doubt-then it is older people who create it ,not

the young themselves.

Let us get down fundamentals and agree that

the

young

are

after

all

human

beings-people

just

like

their

elders.

There

is

only

one

difference between an old man and a young one:

the young man has a glorious future before him

and the old one has a splendid future behind him;

and maybe that is where the rub is.

When

I

was

a

teenager,

I

felt

that

I

was

just

young

and

uncertain-that

I

was

a

new

boy

I

a

huge

school,

and

I

would

have

been

very

pleased

to

be

regarded

as

something

so

interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a

problem gives you a certain identity, and that is

one of the things the young are busily engaged

in seeking.

I find young people exciting. They have an air

of

freedom,

and

they

have

not

a

dreary