Don’t listen to old crowd after what you’ve been through!
When I was 21, some months ago now, I worked with a gentleman from Blyth who regarded youth as forfeit from grievance of any type.
Joe, who must have been pushing 60 by then, might hear you mention tiredness and immediately chide: “Young lad like ye!”
Everything was met with the same inimical response.
Headache. “Young lad like ye!”
Failed your driving test. “Young lad like ye!” Run through with a bayonet. “Young lad like ye!”
I was reminded of him on Tuesday when the A-level results came out.
The young people who sat them are now wondering if their grades will be taken seriously.
Universities have little option but to take them seriously.
The marking system is completely out of the hands of the people sitting them.
If it was too easy to attain an A* then who do you blame? Not the kids.
Not that A-levels are easy. I wonder what I would have been awarded if I’d sat an exam this summer. Probably an invoice for wasting ink.
I say, very well done to the young people who broke the Alevel record.
Have a good time whatever you do and enjoy your life. An older crowd will denigrate you, but pay no heed.
Every generation claims to have had it harder than the one before, while also claiming that things were better then. How does that work?
If the teenage years of your generation were tougher than what today’s teenagers have been through since the start of 2020, then you are either old enough to have endured Second World War; or lying.
Here are two other cliches for the young to be wary of.
“Ha! You’d have been better learning about real life”; are the words of an envious person.
“I’ve been to university. The University of Life!”; are the words of an envious person with no qualifications.
The older you get, the more you realise that no one knows anything.
The world is a madhouse and nobody is running it.
So here is advice from an older person to our youth.
Don’t listen to older people. They talk complete moon juice. And well done again on your exams.