HK is a wicked place. The society turns all individuals to value everything in monetary terms and become even more selfish and self-centered than their natural being.
Parents put their kids into intensive education to help them better position themselves in the job market in the future, hoping their kids to make it big in their respective career paths. Of course, it all pays off when the kids enroll into prestigious schools, getting a medical degree or MBA or any sort of professional degree, working in top firms in the world, earning big pay checks at early age. Most parents didn't get the privilege to experience the luxurious education when they were young, and they know the importance of education in order to stay competitive and make a comfortable living. However, does it mean their maturity and personality will age faster as they develop the complexity of logical and analytical thinking with intensive education?
It seems to me quite the opposite. Although our parents didn't get the same education as we did, they were earlier in the society and started making money at age 18. They experienced the cruel reality and understood family values at much younger age than we did. Looking at our generation who are turning 30, no doubt that many of them are making decent money and have successful career, many of them still act like kids and think immaturely. Putting work/career aside, is education destroying or delaying our moral progression?
If you look around, guys at age 30.. is basically the new 20s, like to experience and be surrounded with numerous girls, unwilling to settle down, lack of financial planning, unreasonably exploiting time because they think they are still young, basically they are like babies without a single oz of father quality, like to be taken care of instead of taking care of others.
Girls at age 30, also like to hang out with numerous guys, hoping to find one to settle down with, very high and sometimes irrational expectation on guys.. because they also have good education and career, making decision based on practicality and calculation, like to measure how much to receive before contributing, also don't have a single oz of mother quality and like to be taken care of rather than taking care of others
Of course not all girls and guys at age 30s suffer the abovementioned symptoms, there are plenty of others develop virtuous and rational beliefs at age 30, probably because education is making our minds more complicated, we are becoming more self-protective and loving ourselves excessively up to a point where sacrifice and compromise is a sin rather than a virtue.
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Joanna,
I am not sure if it is the education that is making our generation materialistic and centered on being competitive in attaining fancy gadgets (equal or better than our counterparts, neighbors). This is what I observed as a very common value.
We do get mature after graduating from school and learn the hardships and pitfalls of the real world. It is a personal and internal thing to prioritize what is important in one's life.
What makes this sad is if a couple focus on "me, me and me", they forgot about making compromises or listening to the other party. In the end, a marriage / relationship cannot work out.
It is not easy to change the world or another person but we can always start with the "I" communication. Sometimes, people change their perspective when there is a life-changing event, like a close one got severely sick or passed away but at times, this is too late.
Mandy
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