Title: What are adolescents? - Quora
Headings: What are adolescents?
What are adolescents?
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Rohan Naik
Patrick Flores
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Content: However, suffering is what led us to grow, adapt, become strong. Yet we wanted to grow and become strong so as to lessen suffering. So we are stuck with a modern paradox. Our instinct is to coddle our kids and save them from hardship, but in so doing we make it so that when hardship finds them 9and it always does in some form or other) they won’t be able to cope with it and will thus suffer immensely. We already see this phenomenon in action. 100 years ago a common source of suffering was lack of food or money. People fought to have food/money and they cared little for personal, mental, metaphysical pursuits. Now we have overcome hunger (In the West anyway) and instead of being happy, we become depressed due to some vague ennui based on feeling that life has no meaning. Because we suffered little when younger, we didn’t develop the coping skills to deal with inner turmoil efficiently. And so the irony is that our ancestors - who suffered from physical lack - were happier, or more resilient anyway, than we are today even though we have our physical needs met.