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Our Lost Youth
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There's a conversation in the pub, no one has any idea where it will go as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows, but if someone brings her remark quite naturally into the talk," I think the problem of graduates' employment in China is really serious." The glow of the conversation burst into flames. There are affirmations and protests and denials. However, conversation is not for making a point, and it cannot reveal the serect of the topic. What on earth is the problem of the graduates? Every coin has its two sides, such a topic is no exception. We can seek the truth from the society and the graduates themselves.
To some extent, the society's judge standard plays a very important role in graduates' employment. For the graduates, especially those who just graduate from the college, they are confident and hopeful to find a satisfactory job; but on the contrary, many companies set high demands of their positions, requiring the interviewees have at least one-year experience on such a position. That's a contradiction in itself. If the graduates can't be offered opportunities to experience, how can they have the qualification of better jobs? For the interviewers, on one hand, they pretend that they are willing to let the excellent graduates refresh their company; but on the other hand, they subconsciously refuse to accept these green-hands. How to balance both? They dream up a "good idea". They set an ordinarily low salary to show sympathy to the graduates and claim that they will be kind and give a brighter future to them. That's totally an empty promise! There's no doubt that some companies really appreciate some excellent graduates, but we can't deny such a common phenomenon. The society's moral standard seems to fade into a material fog.
Of course the college students also should be responsible for themselves. Neet---Not in education, employment or training, which indicates the present situation of the youths.
We are a revolted generation. Our parents place their hope on us, but the up-to-date things which like spring bamboos shoot across our daily life. The faddishness, the wild spending of money on transitory pleasures and momentary novelties, the hectic air of gaiety, and even the experimentation in sensation---sex, drugs and alcohol. All we're doing is hiding from the truth and escaping from the responsibility.
We are a poor generation. We live in the critical judging eyes of the '60th and '70th generations. They have gone through a hardship and suffered many pains in their early life, so they're observing from the sidelines how we will grow up. They look on our growth just as a disinterested by-stander, and sometimes they'll show their pity,"Oh, my poor child, you've done something wrong."
We are a self-banished generation. All we've learned in the college is laziness. We become lazier and lazier and live on the Internet like a gruggy. We refuse to use our brain and tend to accept everything on the Internet. "If you want to know anything, just Google or Baidu." That's a universal law among us.
That's us, a lost generation.
Actually the "Lost Gneration" is never lost. It is just shocked, uprooted for a time, bitter, critical, rebellious, often absurd, more often misdirected---but never lost. We realize life is hard, and we have to learn to bare every kind of outside pressure and even to face with the puzzel in our inner heart. We believe by enriching ourselves on campus can we become more competitive, not to show off, but to improve ourselves. We know how to lead a happy life, and think faithfully that happiness is the most important thing in our life. Life is tough, but we're tougher. All we can do is be ready for the good, so when it comes we invite it in, because we need it.
Quotation:
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, vigor of the emotions; it is the refreshness of the deep spring of life.
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- Your analysis and insight is so profound and pragmatic, also well-grounded. You are great!
