Mistmatch for a generation

Suddenly an child of 14 told me the following: “Why is it that I am still a child and I have to bear the world like an adult?”

Maybe he already knowns the answer by spending hours of his child time behind the screens and let himself washed with our daily news. On the other-hand it is so sad seeing the difference between my childhood and his at this moment.

While I was lived by my hormones and tried to solve math equations at school, he is wondering shall we survive Covid and who will pay for all these expenses during next generations.

The only answer I could offer him , but I did not, was: “Bless you, you were not borned in a region where adults are killed for ideology, religion and poverty”. What a poor and stupid answer would that be for him, although true.

One answer would be fair to say and that is :

“Because we are living on this planet and forgot who we really are”