Magazines

Many people, especially middle-aged and elderly ones still think that only by means of reading a person can develop his/her mind comprehensively. They don’t define completely what they mean by reading. I think that they mean not simply reading as a process, but certain staff for reading, such as novels, poems and stories. They are sure that classic literature has the most powerful educative impact on the young generation. However, youngsters are reluctant to read this sort of literature. They find it boring and incomprehensive. The matter is that nowadays young people have ideals and life goals which differentiate greatly from those of that novels and stories. Maybe twenty years ago, representatives of young generation of that time understood the ideas, hidden in classics, but at present young people don’t even understand the message of this or that story or a novel. That is why they mostly hate literature lessons at school. Once people thought that ideas and ideals laid in these masterpieces of world literature were eternal and would last forever. They were mistaken, as we can judge now by the present-day situation. Life shows that nothing is eternal. Young people are still fond of reading, but they read mostly youth magazines and something from the Internet. They read only those articles and stories, which correspond to their inner world and bring them pleasure and amusement. As for me, I don’t like the most of magazines and journals, published for young people. Life is too short to spend your time for reading something unnecessary and useless.