Our younger Iranian generation are people who are in their 30s today. This generation was born after the start of the darkest period in our Iranian history. This generation came to learn about the concepts that were unfamiliar to it's previous one, at least to many of them. This generation opened their eyes to the world when war, killings, and injustice started to unfold in our home country.
The stories of kind kings and beautiful princesses that we were hearing in our childhood were long gone. Today, this younger generations are demonstrating acts of braveness, still their wings are badly cut. This younger generations are seemingly beautiful, smart, creative, peaceful, and passionate young people they can be, still they are forbidden to be who they are.
This younger generation have their own agenda which is peace for everyone away from politic, away from biases, and away from superstitious beliefs. Unfortunately, this young generation have been traumatized and re-traumatized while the acts of injustice are an evidently everyday life experience. A young 20 years old Iranian fellow living in Iran, has for sure experienced death, lies, traumas, tragedies, harassment, discrimination, and victimization by very legal government sources. Comparing a young 20 years old person from Europe or North America with the young person from Iran, we can observe different world views obviously based on their motivations, yearnings, belongings.
Our Iranian youth are fully aware of the challenges of migration, loss, fear of uncertainties, selfishness, and power struggles that their parents are dealing with. Despite all the odds, our younger generation are brilliant in learning new technology, exploring thoughts, and finding their own ways, distancing self from their parents' distorted thoughts and beliefs. Still, they are in pain.
Why? Because many of us previous generations are part of the problems without finding any solutions.
Despite all the odds of being Iranian, our younger generation are experiencing diverse methods in establishing their own identity. Some of them join the world of music, some go to other branches of art. Some become resilient men and women who are on their way to enter future positions in politic, economy, and decision making roles. In any case, our younger generation is fed up with all the ambiguities, trust issues, confusion, and exaggerations that has worsen life conditions for everyone. This young individuals, male and female feel the responsibility for building what their previous generation has destroyed. Our younger generation is searching for new avenues in which they can redefine their true, unbiased, and independent self. A new identity is what our Iranian - World Citizen needs to come up with.
However, the question is how much of barriers they have to deal with? What are the sources for encouragement, enthusiasm, empathy, and understanding for this young group of people who want to live their lives. On this road of searching for new self, our younger generation has a subtle approach in tackling with their pain, emotional distress, and concerns.
It is clear that we have many success stories of young and older Iranians out there, yet in a bigger picture, Iranian young people are in a real danger at times. Danger of losing the self in the most hidden traumas such as drugs, alcohol, gambling, and many self-destroying behavior's, are real and threatening. This group is perpetuating what has been passed down to them, maybe in diff rent format.
Although, there is no way of generalizing a pattern through which we can picture everyone, still we can focus on what we observe and experience about how this new generation is moving forward without crawling back.
I guess at the end, we can only raise awareness and help families to help their youth.
My name is Poran Poregbal and I am a clinical counsellor. I would like to promote peace, happiness, respect for differences, and multiculturalism. I believe that we have to expand our understanding of mental health by viewing the cultural values into our ways of dealing with the world. I like to emphasize on helping our youth as well as our next generations to integrate within whatever cultures they live in.
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