practising gre writing: any critics out there

Topic 1
“Young people frequently fall into the trap of assuming that the difficulties they face today are greater and more troublesome than those faced by previous generations. As they gain experience and maturity however, they eventually become aware of the falsity of this assumption.”

It could be a result of self pity in adolescence when the individual mind considers itself at odds with the world, most of which falls in different age groups than itself. When that unfairness of the world, strikes one, as being targeted at oneself. Or it could be thanks to the inevitable generation gap in thought and behaviour, which derails every youngster’s relationships with his/her elders. Or it could simply be the realisation of the futility of one’s dreams when suddenly faced with too much reality. As usual what is felt personally and by peers is exaggerated to the mind to be much more than what others said they faced in their days. It’s also at times an excuse to brag about successes against the big bad world that didn’t treat them so bad in the early days, that makes the success even larger; or if its failure, then a concession to justify it by.
Whether it has been the 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s, youngsters have felt lost in, and victimised by the world. Art and literature has discussed this over the ages. Songs have been written with this feeling of being born in times, when things are the worst that the world has known, in some way or the other. Whether it was the rock ages when they felt they needed catharsis more than people before them. Or it was the Victorian era when young people felt there had never been this kind of suppression before. Or maybe present day when we feel that it was all very well for people to feel victimised in those ages, and write about it, but only if they had lived with us now they would have realised what difficult times these are compared with those trifles.
Probably its with age and maturity and wider exposure, when people realise that others both before and after their generation went through as bad or maybe worse than they themselves have, that that idea of supreme personal hardship starts to wear off. Also, when that same assumption/feeling is witnessed in people of a younger generation, people realise that the feeling is typical of human nature to exalt oneself against the world (that is easier to do by making the world seem worse than by improving oneself). And it is this that keeps travelling from generation to generation. A point worth remembering also is the fact that once this realisation sinks in and is established as better logic, these same people reduce the cribbing considerably just to make way for younger voices who feel they are the only ones who have the right to complain. This they become convinced of, taking other’s mature silence as their lack of grievances.