Are Today's Youth Ready For The Challenges of Tomorrow?

I believe that the youth of today are definitely ready for the challenges of tomorrow. I understand that this is a new generation, there aren't a whole lot of radicals from this new generation out there preaching and advocating for the future. However, whoever said that someone had to be outspoken to be successful? This is a new and bright generation. More children are going to college than ever before, the youth are becoming more interested in politics and the news, especially with the election. The youth are becoming more intertwined with other cultures and are interacting with and accepting one another despite their differences. The youth are living the dream that past generations fought for and hopefully can continue to carry that dream for their remainder of their lives.

There will always be challenges for the youth to face, but there may not necessarily always be a battle that needs fighting. We have fought for independence, fought for civil rights, and fought for equality. Do we want our children to have to fight as well? When are we going to say, we have done enough fighting in this country now all you have to do is go out there and maintain the established order? How can we say that the youth are not ready to lead? The youth are now more informed and more capable at such an early age that they have nowhere to go but up.

If we're using the murdering one another, drug, and gang activity that is seen in the media as the only criteria for determining if the youth are ready for the challenges of tomorrow, then yes it would seem like the country is doomed; however, what is shown in the media is a sensationalized image of what really goes on in the world. Not every youth is picking up a gun and killing another youth. We have children graduating earlier, going to college, going to graduate school, and becoming lawyers and doctors.

I do not believe that the youth will let us down. I feel that they are definitely ready for the challenges tomorrow brings, but they need support and direction, not a past generation sitting around idly waiting and expecting them to fail. If past generations continue to carry the youth life infants, never letting them walk out of fear that they will fall down, then when they can't carry the youth anymore and it's time for them to walk, they will fall.

I for one think that the world will be in exactly with right hands when the challenges of tomorrow come around.