OLDER PEOPLE

We have forgotten about old people.
How many time since you don't hear a story told by your grandmother or grangfather? And what about hearing them singing an old song from their childhood?
We don't have time for them and we don't value how many things we could learn from them. They have the experience, they have the knowledge about life.
Under my point of view, nowadays young people have a lack of respect to old people. In the past, respecting older people was an important principle of education for everyone.
As families have been becoming smaller and different kinds of families have born during the last years (monoparental families, one gene couples, etc...), the institution of family and the different rols every member played in the past on them have been changing.
Some decades ago it was usual to coexist in one house two or three generations, so grandparents played an important part in our lifes and furthemore in our education.
Times have changed, and nowadays women postpone her pregnancy due to lots of factors all we know (their insertion in working life, economy factors, new stereotypes of reationships, etc...) , as a result, the differences in age between generations have become larger.
I remember my grandmother telling me stories just before going to bed, and all the songs she had taught to me, and lots of moments learning from them (cooking, playing cards, or simply chatting with them), and what is more important: receiving all their love.

A few days ago I heard one conversation that made me upset: the majority of the teenagers (and also younger children) have an individual television in their room!!!!
You could think this is not a new, but for me it is.
In my home this has been always a forbidden action. My parents always have said to us that having an individual TV would split up the family. They don't like us (my brother and me) watchig TV while we are eating all together (weekends and so) because they think this is the easiest way to break the communication between the family.
Nowdays I wonder if it is because I'm older, and I'm not living with them, but I think they have been always right.
It is true that there is not enough communication among the majority of the families in that times. The society has changed, women used to work out of home (which I think is a good improvement), children used to do lots of extra activities after school because parents don't have enough time to be with them, and people in general have long journeys work. In addition, when children arrive at home have the PC's and TV to hold their attention.
Which I want to say is that communication among the families is a value treasure that we have to preserve and having an individual TV is a way to increase the distance among the members of the family.

I want to be independent!!!

Yes, I want to be independent and to live by my own, but it's impossible. Could you believe it? Yes it's IMPOSSIBLE!!!, despite my age (nearby thirty years old).
This is my own experience, and also the same for lots of my friends about my age. There's a moment in the life of each person in which you want to try your own way and to do your life out of you family home. In that moment you start to consider different options to achieve that item. Normally you have two ways:

- Renting a flat. Laws and regulations in our country doesn't give many facilities to young people to rent a flat. Also here, in Spain, there is not a huge culture for people in general in renting . That's the reason why this option results very expensive, resulting on having to pay almost the same amount as if you have a mortgage. As a result you couldn't enjoy the adventatges of renting a flat and not having its property.
- Buying a flat. It is said that we are the 'thousand euros' generation, which means that, in general terms, Spanish young people earn around 1000 €/ month, so when you try to buy a house and you go to the bank for demanding a mortgage the bank employees almost laugh. What could we do so?.
Some people have to carry a mortgage for thirty or forty years, having to pay every month a letter with almost all the salary and doing juggling to reach the end of the month and avoying for doing extra things. In that way, people are tied for the bank, resulting in many cases in stress, tension and also depression.
There's another possibility which is to look for a house far away for the city center and possibily for your family and work (because it is possible that the prizes were lower, but not sure). The other hand is that you have to change your work or carry with the costs of transport.
Nothing to do if you are a single person and you don't have a couple. In this case buying a house is totally IMPOSSIBLE. And I'm not tlaking about people with low salaries. I'm talking about the majority of young people, young people in general ( between 20 and 30 years old) willing to be independent and could'nt afford it.
And what are doing our politicians? Nothing. They talk, fight... but they don't give us any solutions.
Things have to change.