ISSUE WRITING 1

"Young people frequently fall into the trap of assuming that the difficulties they face today are greater and more troublesome than those faced by previous generations. As they gain experience and maturity, however, they eventually become aware of the falsity of this assumption"

In this new era of globalization, a lot of challenges come to take part for the young generation. As a young people who lack of experience, they tend to think that whatever they face today is a lot tougher than before. With a lot of pressure from everywhere there is a conception in their mind that today is worse than yesterday.

Nevertheless, there are some reasons why young people think in that kind of conception. With the rapid advancement in technology, people tend to fight to get the higher achievement on their field. For example is in the invention of transistor. During the beginning of its being created, the size of a single transistor might not as small as the current one. With the advancement in technology, there is a pressure to create a device which is smaller and smaller. To make this thing happened; surely it won't be as easy as before. Every smaller size in invention will lead to another smaller one, which will be more difficult to think of how to make it more compact then the previous one. The rapid advancement in technology pressure the young generation to make some new invention better than before. People have to compete against time and technology.

Another struggle which is being faced by the younger generation, instead of the technology pressure, is the tight competition among themselves as a generation. They all strive to become the best among its generation. People are getting smarter and smarter every time. More and more people lose in the competition and they are being looked down by the society. With this worldview, young people are being pressured for being the best.

But when the young generation gains more experience and maturity, they realize that no generation is free from difficulties. Every generation shall have its own difficulties on its era, such as the recession which came to Asia on 1997. A lot of young people couldn't get job and a lot of companies were bankrupt. At that time the difficulties were come not just for the young generation but also for the older one.

The rapid technology advancement which push the young people to investigate more and more  deeper, tend to make the young people think their works are tougher than the previous generations. Secondly the pressure from competitiveness either among the generation or another generation implicitly says that people are getting smarter and smarter, so that the competition is much tougher than before. With the increase in maturity and time, they realize that people can't run from the difficulties. Problems will be always among us and it's better that young and old generation can work together to share their experience so that together they come overcome the barrier.