A groovy lifestyle Last weekend in a family lunch an interesting conversation came out: ‘The standard of living of our youth’. I said that my oldest son, who is in 6th grade of primary school and is turning 12 next month, is the only one in his classroom who doesn’t have a mobile phone. We talked about how things have changed in just one generation. Nowadays, a teen needs a great amount of money to spend the month. As I said, most of them have a mobile phone. There also exists a tendency among teenagers to rent a room on the ground floor so that they can meet together. For example, my nephew, who is in 2nd grade in Secondary school and is 14, and a group of around 40 friends have rented a shop unit and each of them has to pay around 20 € a month. We must add to this the brand-name clothes they use and the expensive hair styles. Some of them also either they go out to have sandwiches or they buy them and take them to the former places I talked about. I truly believe that parents nowadays are working in order to afford their kids’ groovy lifestyle. I am almost sure that some parents struggle to make ends meet, but they don’t want their children have less than the others. What society have we created? So many people are dying of hunger in the World and we are focused on feeding the appearance and material necessities of ourserves.