the study and the subject under study…

it’s becoming unrealistic nowadays when it come to think about youth. despite being in the circle, i wonder whether i understand them perfectly.

locally, the definition of youth starts from fifteen years-old and goes as far as forty years-old. it doesn’t make sense to me but thats how the definition sees the youth. internationally, according to the definition by United Nation,

“The United Nations, for statistical purposes, defines ‘youth’, as those persons between the ages of 15 and 24 years, without prejudice to other definitions by Member States.”

as the study continue aim to find the right approach to study the subject, it appears to me that the subject has somehow becoming alien to itself at the present date. as the identity defined by organization specifically explain who they are, somehow when asked, youth do not see themselves representing the rest as how the definition defined them. it appears that youth nowadays are becoming or turning into more like an individual unit that represent different definition of youth.

as i continue my observation, i continue to ask this question to myself: “do youth understand the meaning of being youth?”. “how relevant the definition of youth to the relativity of time?”. I may not get the answer now but i do hope that at the end of this study, i might be able to offer some explanation to myself about how youth define them self rather than how organisations define them.

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