The Youth's Facade

Being a member, and a part of the youth, I see a lot of masks: some colorful, some black and white, some a single color. The point being, I can’t remember the last time that I saw a face among my peers. All I see are masks, masks, and a few more masks, just a bunch of facades. In this post, we’ll be discussing a few forces that likely cause the youth to make these facades; those forces being: acceptance, validation, and judgment.

Acceptance; acceptance is a word that means: to receive something without connotation or extraneous thought. The youth, first of all, don’t accept things often. They always have to have some, but’s, what if’s, and some sort of cynicism. The reason likely being caused by apprehension, and choice. There’s a lot of choices to make in life—especially in this age—and as we evolve, we have to weigh everything. The youth however, they take this a step too far, and never make the choice, never come to accept anything. They keep connotating, keep weighing the options, keep thinking superfluous thoughts, and never come to simply accept anything: whether it be people or products, there is always some sort of complaint, some sort of negativity and apprehension. The other thing that is caused by this is; kids don’t feel accepted. They feel like they can’t be themselves, they have to be x, y, and z to be accepted. To be seen as something, to be worth something, for people to refrain from rejecting them. This attempt, however, at being x, y, and z; it makes kids start to form a mask, a facade.

The second force is validation. These kids, young men and women, they just want more likes on Instagram, more views on videos, more compliments, just more validation. They start being co-dependent with people’s compliments. They aren’t “ok,” unless they are validated, and they cannot validate themselves, they depend on others comments and words, others compliments and criticisms, and on others opinions and comparisons. They covet, they crave validation, and they do what it takes to get that validation. They become what, they feel, they need to become, so that others can validate them, so that others, can like, and accept them. They form themselves based on others; they create their personality to be accepted, and to be validated, they paint a mask and create a facade to fit these things.

The last thing is judgment. Everyone’s heard the expression, “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Which is true, you shouldn’t. However, not only do people judge the book by its cover, they judge its contents, usually based off of preconceived notions from the cover. People are incessantly judging, not just judging other people, but everything. Which tree is the most colorful in fall? Why does that person have to walk like that? Why is that cat so fat? People constantly judge everyone and thing. They then, fear judgment from others after judging them. It’s an insidious cycle which causes the youth to make their mask not only to be perceived a certain way, but as a shield from people’s judgments, everyone is so sensitive, they hide behind the facade of, “I don’t care what people think.” Even though they do; next to that they care a lot. It’s important to care what people think to some extent (it will help you evolve if someone can point your flaws out), but the youth is taking it beyond too far, and too much of anything is a negative thing. Judgment needs to stop in my opinion. It should completely cease, it’s superfluous, and is a negative force, people need to train their minds, gain more control over their minds, find more discipline within themselves, to stop gauging things, judging them, especially in a negative light. That will help these kids not require a shield, a facade, to protect themselves from this judgment.

Being a part of the youth is wonderful, I love every single one of my peers, however, they have so much pressure, so many issues with acceptance, with validation, with judgment, that they are hurting their bodies, minds, and souls. I personally believe that we should learn to accept everything, re-wire our minds to make validation unnecessary, and turn judgment off completely. That, however, will go against a lot of the evolution from our ancestors to now, but I’ll retain the hope that we will get closer. If you’re reading this I urge you to do those things, other than that, thanks for reading this, have an elated week, I’ll see you the next, peace.

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