One can only hope those teenagers are looking for what we were looking
for 4 decades ago. Meaning! Genuine spirituality. A sense of the
mystic. None of which is really to be found in the world our
generation has build.>>
I am not very quick to elevate our generation to a more spiritual status
than the one before us, or the one after us. As a quick observation, we
seem more satisfied with a coherent belief system; kids want action.
The kids today seem more ensnared by peer pressure, but maybe that is not
true either. Our generation planted the seeds for the nihilism of today. I
for sure would not want to be a high school or college kid trying to see my
way through these times.
Also, as far as our generation being genuinely spiritual -- how many found
their way to Baha'u'llah? So can our generation be called so spiritual?
Each generation seems to have its own few qualities that it deems the most
important in character; they are different each generation, but they all
seem to be a small selection from the array of qualities which Baha'u'llah
calls us to. We claim to be more peace oriented, but a lot of that comes
from the foundation laid by our parents. In general I think that our
parents, individually and as a generation, had our generation in mind when
they took collective steps like creating and paying for a system of higher
education, creating the UN. Our generation has its virtues, but so do the
others. Ours just fit like an old sweater and seem more comfortable to us.
Brent
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