It is not a mystery that for whatever reasons, today we tend to extend the duration of youthness and adolescence, often exaggerating a bit, to the point that we often talk about 40 year old “kids”. What i would like to point out about this new tendency is the damages that such tendency carries out to those who should be the real kids, that is, those people whom the english word “teenager” properly defines (those whose age ends in -teen;13-19).
If we define a 40 year old man as a boy, then an 18 year old will automatically have to be classified as a child, leading the 18 year old to behave precisely as such.
Then, this is why athletes who have no capability whatsoever to manage their emotions and pressures, and most of all, who do not take their own responsibilities on the fencing platform are so common to find nowadays; and if an athlete cannot take responsibilities for his performance, then he cannot be defined as such; he could be a good executor, but as he will always be waiting for the solution to arrive from above, precisely like children do, he will be often incapable of managing difficult moments during the attack.
However, this is not the only consequence of this tendency affecting our society, and it certainly is not the worst. The real problem is that by treating teenagers like children we have made an entire generation incapable of trusting themselves because we, in the first place, didn’t trust them. After all how could one possibly trust children?
And they obviously feel it, they detect it; these teenagers come to the gym every day, and while they do put an effort in practicing, yet they do it in a superficial and unenthusiastic way, thus confusing quantity with quality. And we don’t realize Continua a leggere→
