These Are The Most Damaging Mentalities That I Frequently Observe In Today’s Youth

Entitlement — With the rise of the Internet came the rise of arrogance. Everyone can look up anything they want in the blink of an eye and gain a level of luxury unfathomable to most people just a mere decades ago. This causes arrogance and entitlement and a lack of respect. And mercy on those poor souls should that luxury be taken away.

The Desire for Attention — A lot of today’s youth are not getting enough love and attention from the world around them and try to redeem this by doing various stupid things.

Glorification of Recklessness — Instagram Pictures of Partying too hard, YOLO, the TidePod Challenge, even Planking are all Glorification of Recklessness. All because it gets attention.

Peer Pressure — While most of today’s youth would say they do not abide to Peer Pressure they still play the same games as everyone, do the same things and very few actually make up their own mind as to what to do with their life to gain the attention of others.

Going Against the World — Fighting their parents, teachers and everyone there to help them, because authority is bad and fighting it means status which gives them more attention.

Lack of Self-Reflection — I mean, why do you need to reflect on your own life? You are being told what to do anyway and that seems right, right? So what’s the point of thinking for yourself? Today’s Youth is being trained to be sheep but expected to be lions.

Instant Fixes — Passion, Love, and Happiness should all be things one finds right away. That’s what it’s like in the movies, TV shows and in most games, so it’s that way in the real world too, right? If it doesn’t give me what I want, I will quit and go on to the next thing.

Originally published at http://quora.com.