WEAK bodies bent over glowing screens, heavy glasses resting on tired eyes, airpods sealed into ears, burgers clutched in distracted hands and attention constantly divided between notifications and short videos, this is the everyday image of Generation Z, a generation growing up fast but not always growing deep, shaped by speed, convenience and constant digital stimulation rather than patience, silence and reflection.

They live in a world where everything is available instantly, information, entertainment, validation, yet the ease of access often hides a quiet emptiness, because access to knowledge is not the same as learning, just as living inside a library does not make a person educated unless he reads, reflects and understands.

Many young people scroll endlessly without absorbing, react quickly without thinking and move forward without grounding, their minds trained by thirty-second videos that reward emotion over........

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