The Fear For The Future.

I am someone who is very close to my family, especially my parents.

And they will always tell me stories that I like to hear. They like to tell me things throughout their lives, and how now and then used to be different.

But hearing the stories of their generation, I sometimes get a cold chill thinking about how my generation is going to turn out, not to mention how the next generation is going to turn out, because every preceding generation governs the outcome of the next.

In simple terms, our parents determine what we become, and in turn, we determine what our children become, and etc. Same goes in the bigger scope I call a generation. It's like a cycle of life.

But in today's world, things are changing rapidly.

Today, children are being more and more outspoken day by day. Before this, parents govern the family and children have less say. Some people might see it as a dictatorship, which is true if children are not at all given the space to think themselves. But like I state countless times before, everything has a right timing to it, and it some instances parents need to be initial dictators to their children's life while they are still growing up, of course practicing liberalism at the same time for the children to be independent.

So children nowadays develop their own way of thinking earlier on in life, which is good. But what if their way of thinking is still too immature due to lack of experience, and can result in a decision that will be regretted later?

How many teenage pregnancies are present in this world today? How many underage drinkers and drug doers are present in the world today?

And in the future, what if there comes a point where the parents do not exercise control over their children anymore, and things will get out of control at some point where the older and wiser no longer determines what the younger does? Wouldn't it be chaotic for this situation we have right now to get out of control?

Hmmm, I fear for the future.

And more specifically, I fear for how future generations will regard the negative things today. A code in life that I hold is that everything starts small in the world, and then it amplifies and becomes something big in the end. (Note: Chaos Theory and Chain Rule).

For example, specifically for Muslims, drinking and drugs and sexual relations before marriage is a big big sin. But I do know that even people who are about my age who actually drink, do drugs, and have sex before marriage, although maybe not in the open.

But imagine that this situation is not remediated. In the future, they might actually have the balls to say that "hey, smoking is Haram as well, but we still do it. So why not go the whole way and do other bad stuff as well. It's just like smoking right?".

Also, online 'gambling' games are of concern as well. I learnt how to play poker when I was 9, of course without the money and the bets. I took it as a game of chance and luck, and not a means of making money, coz that is gambling. But today, the popularization of online casino games such as Draw Poker, Texas Hold Em and BlackJack really gives you the feeling of actually gambling in a casino, and although the 'money' that we win is virtual, we actually feel the joy of winning and the frustration of losing.

I started playing these online games when I was twenty, when I was already matured enough to think on my feet and set what is right and what is wrong. But what if in the future, people who are five years old start playing these games, and consequently they are used to the idea that playing these games in the outside world, even with money, is alright? They wouldn't know it is gambling right? They just know that it's a game. So consequently, even gambling will become an acceptable thing even in societies that once regarded them as a hugely sinful act.

Take all this and add the non control mode exercised by parents, the world can surely be chaotic.

So, in writing this long piece, what is the point I am trying to point out?

All I am saying is that ay preceding generation will determine how the next one is going to turn out. It is a cycle of life, where the child learns from the parents and will endown what they know to their children, and so forth.

Also, everything in this world starts small. What starts as a small bet, will eventually turn out to be a fully fledged gambling game, if they were not confined to what they should only be.

So, if you are reading this, please realise. Every generation is vital to the next. Think about it.