A quotation from Herrick, Robert
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
“To the Virgins to Make Much of Time,” Hesperides, # 208 (1648)
#quote #quotes #quotation #beauty #carpediem #marchoftime #mortality #passageoftime #seizetheday #youth
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“This feels nostalgic despite me not even existing during this time.”
“The whole concept of a real ‘childhood’ is completely out the window at this point in time and that’s extremely sad to me. Btw I’m 15, born in 2003.”
“I’m 20 years old so I wasn’t even conceived at the time of this video but it leaves me feeling empty. My highschool experience was nothing like this. I remember short bursts of people living in the moment but EVERYTHING revolved around our phones, Snapchat/Instagram status. It almost makes me angry because I’ve never had simple straight forward interaction as shown in this video. Even looking at people in the background, they are completely present and not buried in their phones. Everyone seemed a lot more social. I’m jealous of millennials/gen x, yall experienced a golden time to be young and free.”
A quotation from Jerome, Jerome K.
When a twelfth-century youth fell in love he did not take three paces backward, gaze into her eyes, and tell her she was too beautiful to live. He said he would step outside and see about it. And if, when he got out, he met a man and broke his head — the other man’s head, I mean — then that proved that his — the first fellow’s — girl was a pretty girl. But if the other fellow broke his head — not his own, you know, but the other fellow’s — the other fellow to the second fellow, that is, because of course the other fellow would only be the other fellow to him, not the first fellow who — well, if he broke his head, then his girl — not the other fellow’s, but the fellow who was the — Look here, if A broke B’s head, then A’s girl was a pretty girl; but if B broke A’s head, then A’s girl wasn’t a pretty girl, but B’s girl was. That was their method of conducting art criticism.
Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) English writer, humorist [Jerome Klapka Jerome]
“On Being Idle,” Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
#beauty #combat #conflict #trial #violence #youth
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source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/cellphone-smartphone-bans-schools
Another effect has been a surge of students signing up for the school’s photography class, which uses film cameras. Enrollment nearly tripled. While a popular new #teacher may have been a factor, Light Phones also don’t have cameras.
I find the article quite superficial. Sure, the students are interested in analog photography again, but they don't learn anything about #media competence. What will they need more of later in #life?
The country's retirement-age population, aged 60 and over, is expected to increase to more than 400 million by 2035 - more than the entire population of the United States - from about 280 million people currently.
The state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences sees the #pension #system running out of money by 2035.
Population reduction is good for the #environment. Perpetual growth is nonsense on a finite planet. Why not solve this problem now while we are still doing relatively well? I forgot, because it means work for politicians and they're not so good at that. Besides, many people don't want to change and adapt and believe that everything was better in the past. We used to cause the problems in the past that are now threatening to ruin our #future!
#economy #growth #news #statistics #children #youth #politics #earth #problem #civilization #humanity #capitalism #collapse #finance #resources
As the planet hits record temperatures year by year, world leaders are meeting in Dubai for the COP28 summit with a large task at hand. Lowering greenhouse g...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #COP28 #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Decolonisation #Feminism #Flooding #FossilFuels #Gaza #GreenhouseGas #Protest #Youth #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines #ClimateChange #Heatwave #AneliseBorges #AjStream #TheStream
Will the world continue to prioritise profits over the environment? | The Stream
Source: https://www.dw.com/en/germans-warned-to-avoid-spicy-eating-challenges/a-66760867
In #Großbritannien ermany, the challenge has resulted in the hospitalization of at least one student, according to news portal Tagesschau. A 14-year old student in the US state of #Massachusetts died hours after taking part in the #challenge. It is unclear whether his death was caused by the spicy #chip.
The company behind the chips used in the challenge has meanwhile pulled the product from shelves.
source: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/814776-bottoms
The idiot crowd on the internet would call this #movie #woke. The movie is about strong women who don't start out as high-flyers but go through a character development from the very bottom. The two friends in the movie are lesbians and think that if they start a self-defense club at their school they can finally have body contact with potential partners. As crazy as the idea is, it will still be realized. Ultimately, you can create something good even with the wrong intentions. The right mix of #humor and #action with still unknown actors is impressive.
The only #criticism I would like to make is that in the end the impression is created that problems can be solved with #violence and that everyone at the school thinks this is okay.
#Teenager #school #education #entertainment #fightclub #cinema #teeny #highschool #friendship #youth #football #cheerleader #love
I would like to add two points
1) In #Germany, rallies and demonstrations are prohibited.
people who would demonstrate are beaten up.
look here
2) I am very glad that it is young people who are standing up here and thus providing proof
that young people are not completely jaded.
https://odysee.com/@SabbySabs:e/exclusive-thousands-attend-free:0
#youth #solidarity #Palestinian #Israel #Gaza #resistance #sabby
-> 'Soyez heureux, ne pensez pas au futur (et faites-vous des bisous) ...'
#IgorSamolet #be #happy
#russian #youth #nofuture #photo #art
Therefore, when the young die I am reminded of a strong flame extinguished by a torrent; but when old men die it is as if a fire had gone out without the use of force and of its own accord, after the fuel had been consumed; and, just as apples when they are green are with difficulty plucked from the tree, but when ripe and mellow fall of themselves, so, with the young, death comes as a result of force, while with the old it is the result of ripeness. To me, indeed, the thought of this “ripeness” for death is so pleasant, that the nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in his home port after a long voyage.
[Itaque adulescentes mihi mori sic videntur, ut cum aquae multitudine flammae vis opprimitur, senes autem sic, ut cum sua sponte nulla adhibita vi consumptus ignis exstinguitur; et quasi poma ex arboribus, cruda si sunt, vix evelluntur, si matura et cocta, decidunt, sic vitam adulescentibus vis aufert, senibus maturitas; quae quidem mihi tam iucunda est, ut, quo propius ad mortem accedam, quasi terram videre videar aliquandoque in portum ex longa navigatione esse venturus.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
De Senectute [Cato Maior; On Old Age], ch. 19 / sec. 71 (44 BC) [tr. Falconer (1923)]
#quote #quotes #quotation #youth #oldage #death #mortality #acceptance #harbor #journey #lifeanddeath #lifespan #oldage #ripeness #youth
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One #question we have to ask ourselves more and more often in this high-tech #world is, is this real, AI-generated or just heavily photoshopped? And why is this stuff posted if it only triggers #depression among the #youth because of unattainable beauty ideals?
Scarce #jobs and punishing property prices have dashed their hopes of buying a home and starting a family. We scraped social #media and found that the mood is growing darker. Disillusioned youth talk of tangping (lying flat) and bailan (letting it rot), synonyms for giving up.
#news #economy #youth #news #politics #work #perspective #job
