Title: What are adolescents? - Quora
Headings: What are adolescents?
What are adolescents?
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Rohan Naik
Patrick Flores
Rahul Sinha
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Content: 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. Now, I’m not suggesting that we make our kids starve lol. I’m just saying that we have to somehow allow the kids to go through some life trials and develop coping skills. We have to somehow educate them on how lucky they are to have what they have. I think things like 1 -2 week camping trips without modern luxuries, would help show our kids just how lucky they are. This wisdom would help them feel gratitude towards life.