Joys and sorrows of different ages (Текст для перевода)

Joys and sorrows of different ages.

Some people suppose that childhood is surely not the happiest period of peoples life. But I wouldn’t agree with this statement. For example, I don’t  remember anything from my infancy, I can only see pictures and listen to my relatives, telling about me at the age of 1-3 and the like. But I think that this period is extremely important. Just imagine, what a huge (strong) stream of information a child gets! Everything is new and everything must be tried: how it works? Then we become older and in some case wiser. Children have no responsibilities. Many would agree that children have complete freedom from care, there are no social or economic pressures, they look at the world with fresh yeas, everything is unspoiled. Some people put forward the idea that essential difference between childhood and manhood is the same as the difference between independence and subjection. But others may argue: children have to do as they were told./ in fact nowadays many people stick to the opinion that generation gap is becoming bigger and bigger. Children are full of vigor, which is a driving force, they are sensitive, eccentric and uncontrolled. While yet their parents are sensible, wise and anxious, they refuse to understand the children private world, the language they speak; they consider teenage behavior intolerable, shocking and inexplicable. Children’s hairstyle, clothes they wear drives them parents mad. This is what first of all makes child feel different and they move away and join the peergroups in self-defense against the older generation. What is more, parents mostly can’t understand that they can’t keep their teenagers from making mistakes./ Adult world in it’s turn is not a paradise it seems. One a one hand adults are bored, disillusioned, but on the other they are free and have all the possibilities to be happy./ it’s not surprising, that one of the utopian dreams of menkind is to find the secret of eternal youth.