Some people
believe that today young people are more independent on their parents to make
decisions for them. However, in my opinion, in the past, young people depended
too much on their parents to make decisions for them, and today young people
are better able to make decisions about their own lives. This is because these
days, parents’ opinions may not be suitable for young people’s life and young
people get information for themselves in a wide variety of ways.
To begin with, I
think that these days are changing briskly. That means parents’ opinions are
not suitable for young people. In the past, people lived similarly with
parents’ life because the world is similar to that world which parents lived
in. So, parents’ advices and concerns are very precious and important for their
life. Obviously, they followed their parents’ opinions even making a decision
for their life. But nowadays the world is changing fast. Today is different
from yesterday, and tomorrow is different from today. Hence, there is a possibility
that our parents’ experiences or opinions become old fashion.
On top of that,
I believe that young people can get a lot of useful information from the
internet for their life. As what I mentioned, the world is changing very fast.
And it follows that our technologies are developed very much so that we can
access to a lot of information which is related to us. We can easily find
useful information and we can select and use it. In other words, there are a
lot of things which are more useful and more accurate than parents’ opinions.
I believe that
we can feel it if we just look at some generations. My grandfather learned
about agriculture from his father. And obviously, his father’s saying was facts
and truths. The knowledge from him was all which he should know. But if we turn
our eyes to our generation, then we can figure out that we don’t need to know
about our parents’ knowledge that much. Many of us should know how to use the
internet or how to go to the universities not how to deal with the world like the
parents did.
To sum up, I
believe today young people are better able to make decisions about their own
lives without parents’ opinion because there is a high likelihood that parents’
opinions become old and also, we can get more accurate and useful information
from the internet.