Story : The Problem Of Youth by William Barclay

Story title: The Problem Of Youth
By: William Barclay

    Someone has tried to compare the problems of young people to those of the flying fox or fruit bat.
    When the world was created, the flying fox found no other creature quite like himself. He wanted some companionship and so he made his home with some birds.
    This was all right for a time, but one day one of the birds said to him, "Why do you live with us? We are birds, but you don't seem to be one of us even though you can fly. You look very much like a mouse. Don't you think you'd be happier living with the mice.?"

The flying fox thought that was a good idea and went to live with the mice. They were kind to him, but they could never get off the ground and fly around with him.
    So he left the mice, too. But now what to do? Where to go? He could never quite make up his mind. And that is why to this day, he flits around erratically, like a bird without a guiding tail.
    Young people are like that, too. They are neither children nor adults, neither fish nor fowl, neither bird nor beast. So thirs is an uncertain zigzag course.
    They need someone to guide them during there years.