Are young people today have anything else in their mind except fun?

People tell me I should be a philosopher.

I think about global issues, equal rights, global climate change, individual's safety, the future, and everything else under the sun.

The media's a black hole of attention.

When they're the ones pumping out the info, the nice kids who work in a soup kitchen seem to get brushed under the carpet when a kid who got drunk and streaked a college campus comes around.

I like to think of myself as a compassionate, kind, and thoughtful person. I don't go to parties all the time, I don't get drunk with my friends on the weekends, and I'm not doing drugs.

Of course. It's not like just because a person is young they can't have anything else on their mind. For example when my friends mother AND father passed away in a car crash I'm 100% sure he wasn't thinking "Hmm oh well, lets play games!" If a child or teen is gay or lesbian ect. im sure they have thoughts about their life or how crappy their day was at school. Same goes for straight people. There are also children who simply CAN'T think of fun because they live in poverty and can only think about getting through the next day. For many young people fun is hardly something they think about.

I am around young people a lot. While some of them have only fun on their minds, some of them are among the most socially, politically, and intellectually aware people I have ever met.

I am continually astounded by the perceptiveness and social responsibility of our teenagers.

But then when has it ever been any different? Out of each generation will arise those few who are destined to lead our society.

Remember, each world leader has, at one time, been a teenager.

So I guess the basic answer to your question is, "Yes!"

You really should stop and take into consideration the group of people you target, and where the are in thier develpment as people.

When we are small children, our only concern is fun. Adults take care of the other mundane things in order to free our time for just those pursuits.

When we enter school, while the focus is education, we are still encouraged to play and have fun, and sections of the day are even set aside to offer us the opportunity to pursue fun between periods of study.

As we grow a little older, and school becomes a bit more sophisticated and structured, we are encouraged to focus more on our studies, while at the same time still encouraged to become active in fun by participating in elective or extra-curricular activites such as sports, music, theater, etc.

The group you are targetting with this question are simply at that latter stage of early development, and haven't yet come to the place in thier lives when motivation to seek out what is 'fun' has to be carefully managed against the responsibility of doing all the mundane things that adults have to do in order to afford the young the freedom to pursue fun.

It's part of the natural, yet socialized and institutionalized development of youth. It's part of growing up. It is their time, now. Thier time to be adults is coming, shortly, and it will be as sad for them to be less able to pursue 'fun' as it was for you and me. Better they should do it now, while they have the time and leisure for it than to reach adulthood and, having failed to be children when they were children, behave like children.

It is good to hope that children, by the time they reach adolescence, at least have an eye for the maturity that will be required of them, soon, but don't hold your breath. They don't yet know how important it will be to them. The shock will be, as it is for everyone when it happens, hard to bear.

One thing has never changed, ever, throughout the years, something all generations have n common from ancient times until present times. young people think they are indestructible. Some never harness it, some do. Most work their way through it and become some of the things they rebel against in youth.

We have a lot of things on our minds. Yea they somehow end up being sexual but that is just because of all of the hormones. It's really impossible to think of anything but sex. But really most of us are intelligent people who care about the world and the issues surrounding it. Plus we must deal with copious amounts of stress so between everything we have a lot to think about that distracts us from sex.

When you are young that is the time to have fun and be care free.

It seems the older always say something of the young

I was into fun when I was young

glad to see that part has not changed

I have a lot of things in my mind dirty things, fun things, sexual things, random things, scary things, things that make me want to cry.....there so much in my mind it wouldn't even fit in this box.....lmao im so tired I have no idea wut im saying lol

You'd be surprised what we have on our minds.