This is so fucking shit for young people

[ssd]

Yeah i know its shit for everyone before you pounce on me

But imagine being around 20 just now...no pubs, no nightclubs, no jobs around, no buzz in your town centre, no excuse to dress up in something new, or planning your latest night out, meeting your pals and all the excitement of the night ahead.

Its just so fucking shite.

I got the train home tonight from work, Glasgow city centre is a ghost town. Places that were always busy boarded up, of course everything except like of newsagents and tesco's shut. Its Friday night. It was always jumping when i was young, absolutely jumping. It was dead. On the train was a bunch if young boys, playing music a bit too loud, all singing along....going home from the city centre at 6pm!!!!. I could have cried watching them all, a nice sunny evening and the only place they are heading was back to mum and dads, or a local park maybe, i dont know. They were about 18, casual dressed, haircuts, all wanting a good time with their pals and probably hoping to meet a partner if they were single.

Where is the life for these kids???

This has gone on long enough. I dont care if i never see inside a pub again. I've had a brilliant social life at that age. Now they have fuck all.

Its too much.

[savethegrannies]

War

[persistentwoman]

Completely agree OP. All the debt so many of them have incurred from wealthy universities who have ensured that they've taken money from the young while offering so little in return. The lost jobs and the loss of their freedom at a time when they should be exploring and having fun.

[hellywelly3]

I really feel for all 3 of my children but my 18 yo is the one I think has it the worse. He should be out drinking, having fun, sex! I was out nearly every night at his age. Meeting loads of new people. He went out with a few college friends tonight to weatherspoons for a couple but it closed at 9! It’s shit it really is.

[hellywelly3]

He’s also lost his job in a restaurant due to covid

[savethegrannies]

Poor kid helllywelly3. It's really tough for them 😔

[Helpmyhair2019]

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

My grandma spent ages 19-25 working nights in a munitions factory in the middle of nowhere. So her entire young adulthood. She was Ok. Shit happens unfortunately.

It’s not about sacrificing the young to save the old, it’s about stopping the NHS from being overwhelmed.

But that was normal for people at the time. It wasn’t that she had to do that due to a pandemic when the year before all her peers would’ve been having the time of their lives. I can’t imagine how hard her life must’ve been but it doesn’t mean that young people today should be going through this. I had a shit time at university and ended up with huge mental health problems. It doesn’t mean that I don’t think young people today should be having the time of their lives

[slashlover]

So far in the past year we've had

It's worse for babies/toddlers not being socialised
It's worse for primary school kids not being able to get used to being at school
It's worse for secondary schools kids because of not taking exams
It's worse for uni students not getting the experience
It's worse for people in their 20 not getting on the career ladder
It's worse for people in their 20s/30s who've had to postpone weddings/who've been pregnant or had babies
It's worse for people with young kids/people with teenagers/single people/people in shit relationships
It's worse for the elderly.

[Thewinterofdiscontent]

[quote marshyindigo]@Thewinterofdiscontent it's not just about going out, it's travelling, it's their education. We can say with hindsight it's been a year, but we haven't known that for much of this making it extremely mentally difficult and we can't say for definite that June is the start of the new world.[/quote]
Really? Everywhere in the world had stages of non lockdown. As we were frequently being told on MN many places we’re doing better than us and were returning to normality.
I don’t think anyone seriously thought this would go on longer than it has.

And it’s good for them. Maybe we’ll have raised a generation who understand that life changes and they need to make good decisions.

[Thewinterofdiscontent]

And a year of stress free easy passes for those taking exams. It’s not all shit.

[RJnomore1]

Stress free easy passes?

You are obviously on a fucking wind up.

[ArseInTheCoOpWindow]

But that was normal for people at the time

I’m not sure what you mean? She worked in normal jobs before that. So it wasn’t normal.

But in the context of WW 2 it was normal,

And unfortunately in this pandemic, it is becoming the new normal for young people not to have the freedom of their elders. But l was trying to say, they will be OK. It’s shit, I have a 15 year old and l hate it. But she will survive.

[savethegrannies]

Stress free easy passes. Seriously fuck off

[MarshaBradyo]

Ah no re stress free passes

Losing exams is a big deal

[RJnomore1]

They haven’t all survived though hsve they 😟

[ssd]

@Thewinterofdiscontent

And a year of stress free easy passes for those taking exams. It’s not all shit.

Stupidest comment winner

[RedcurrantPuff]

@MarshaBradyo

Ah no re stress free passes

Losing exams is a big deal

Absolutely agree.

School was my life, I’d have been completely devastated if my exams had been ripped away from me.

[Wellbythebloodyhell]

YANBU at all OP the younger generation have been totally screwed over in this pandemic, their lives have effectively been paused and mostly not for their benefit either. Children and teenagers don't get to pause their lives in the same way adults have, they don't get their school years, university years or coming of age celebrations again they're once in a life time occasions and I think they should be praised and recognised more for the things they've sacrificed for the greater good

[cyclingmad]

Op you say:

now...no pubs, no nightclubs, no jobs around, no buzz in your town centre, no excuse to dress up in something new, or planning your latest night out, meeting your pals and all the excitement of the night ahead.

But alot of those is what alot of people I know in their 30s etc that are also missing out on these things. So actually I think you being unreasonable to say its fucking shit for young people.

[SamW98]

I hate what this has done to young people. My DS had his 15th and 16th birthdays without being able to go out with his friends and has pretty much missed a year of his GCSE's.
He's an anxious boy anyway and this has hit him hard. he's struggled to go back to school and his grades have dropped.

So sad that he had 10 years of absolutely impeccable school reports and should be getting 6/7/8 in his GCSE's but he's just about scrapping enough 5's to get into 6th form due to something totally outside of his control.

I can't say I agree with the youths having the illegal parties but I can understand how they feel

[Boph]

*
A year of your life at 21 is massive. I don't care for me but my kids have had a terrible time. DS was lucky to start a new job a year ago. Moved to a new city, he has lived on his own, worked from home and had zero social life for a year. Not going into work means no opportunity to meet new people and make friends in a strange city.

[SamW98]

@Thewinterofdiscontent

And a year of stress free easy passes for those taking exams. It’s not all shit.

Are you for real??? I've got a 16 year old struggling with stress and anxiety and tearful most days over his assessments

Stress free - fuck off

[peak2021]

I agree it is.

Just remember that young people and indeed everyone else have had longer periods of restrictions that need have been the case because of the incompetent government. Yes there should have been most if not all of the restrictions we have had, but even four weeks less in duration would have been easier to bear.

If you voted Conservative in 2019 or indeed did not vote, you are in a way partly to blame.

[Icenii]

But this is life. This is the life they are living. Moaning, pitying and continually empathising things you believe they are missing out on will not help anyone who is stuggling. It's all very well pining for what could have been, but that never existed. One thing this has taught me is that we should never take anything for granted. Nothing is a given.

[Thewinterofdiscontent]

@savethegrannies

Stress free easy passes. Seriously fuck off

No, you fuck off.
My DS was delighted as were many more. They worked for 5 years and were perfectly fine with their predicted grades. That’s the A students and ones who wouldn’t have made it but were given benefit of the doubt.

[Joeblack066]

I heartily agree. Worst for all the under 25s IMO.