on an insight...
When parents/teachers/adults see the young folk do things which cause a collective intake of self-righteous breath and go - 'in our time...', I realize we are doing both the young and us, the older, a grave injustice.
The second we are in is different from the one that just went by, and the one that is waiting to happen. We are different in the second that is passed, in the second that is the now, and will be in the second that is to come. How then can two periods of time be the same? How can similar situations - arguments with parents and teachers, school/college, work life.....simply living... in two periods of time ever be the same?
No one can really, hand on heart, say that 'our times' were better - there are good times and bad times in all the ages...and all the times..........as the inexorable passage of time happens, best is to live in this second of time, without looking over one shoulder at the past, or predicting the 'dire' future...ending up making our young, our old and ourselves miserable....