Teenagers and Adults

Kevin
19 March 2007
LEVEL 6

Teenagers and Adults

Time elapse, how many people would yearn the years they were young? We are all busy at our life. As an adult, when I recall my childhood, funny things appear in my eyes. I can’t go back to before, but the memory has been engraved in my brain. It’s interesting to compare your teen life and your adult life. We will see the great differences between a young boy and an adult. I felt that the thoughts, behavior and responsibility have changed when the people grew up.

Our thoughts in our mind have some basic diversity. After we become adults, our thoughts develop at the same time. They learn knowledge from books when they are young. Also, their thoughts become complex after they walk in the society. For example, adults always mask themselves to different people. They try to hide what they are thinking about. Perhaps you hate to talk to one of your colleagues, but you have to because you must keep the good coaction’s relation. Of course, sometimes they feel tired of pretending; they lose the true face of themselves. They even don’t know which is the true face for them. For so many adults, they are keen to go back to their childhood because they are tired of a hypocritical world. On the other hand, the teenagers are infantile. For instance, I was mad about watching cartoon, but I didn’t understand why my mother always disallowed me to watch that interesting TV. They are interested in everything from the society with curiosity. They lack of judgment in their age. Therefore, they neither know what is true nor what is wrong. That’s why many teenagers are eager to be an adult as soon as possible.

The behavior of adults changed gradually when they grew up. Adults are allowed to get into a club, and they can also drink. Also, most of the adults care what they do. For example, when they have a party or a meeting, they always made themselves up or choose the best clothes for the occasion. They want to give others a good impression because they care about others’ impression. However, most teenagers don’t care what they look like and others’ opinions. If we try to educate a teenager with our experience, they won’t be patient to listen. Moreover, teenagers don’t understand what love is. A lot of children even always scold their parents because they don’t know how much love their parents have given them. In my family, I couldn’t have a girlfriend when I was young. Most parents in China believe that it will bring bad effect in student’s studying if they fall in love. All parents have the same love on their children, especially when they are young. As we see, many advertisement focus on the children. Some parents even coddle their children, let them do nothing housework at home.

As adults, we have more responsibility than teenagers. At first, we have the law duty in a society. We must know something about the law in our country. If we break the law, we will go to the jail. For example, we can’t say we don’t know the law to the judge if hurt someone. As an element in a society, we need to vote for our country. In a family, we have responsibility to work. We need to support ourselves, even to make money for our family. In contrast, most teenagers don’t need to work except studying; they just ask money for their parents. A lot of teenagers have carefree life. They never worry about their future. Most of them have no consciousness about what they will be or what they will do. Their most important responsibility is going to school.

These are the ways that the adults have changed when they grew up. Teenagers and adults are two different roles in our lifetime. For teenagers, they should be careful about what they do because what they do maybe affect what they will be. For adults, it’s glad to think about our childhood and we don’t need to regret what we did because we can’t change anything for our past.