My generation
I was born in 1985. Even as a child, I felt slightly different if I compared myself to my peers and seemed to be drawn more towards adults.
Maybe it had something to do with my grandparents raising me when my mother had to work. I must have absorbed a lot of old-fashioned values (I'm grateful for it). As a result, I find myself to be quite strict with myself (and others). I expect a certain discipline and keeping a promise is paramount to me.
Maybe that's why I feel quite the Alien when it comes to people around my age or a bit younger. These days, people don't seem to appreciate the things they have. We live in a society where commercialism seems to equal happiness (although that's a pipe dream). Money and material possession seems to define who we are and whether or not we achieved something in life. But has it always been that way?
What's the reason that society would become like that? The way I see it, our grandparents and parents grew up with less wealth than we did. Each generation would benefit off the hard work of the previous generation (one to start it, one to establish it, the third to spend it). We're the third generation. So where will that leave the fourth generation? Will they have to start at the bottom again?
Coincidentally, older generations had more children(and sooner). My generation seems to have less children and if they do want children, they often don't seem to think about the consequences. My generation doesn't seem to care about causality, the fact that actions have consequences. They feel entitled to have whatever they desire (which I think is a result of growing up too "rich", compared to previous generations).
It's odd because I can feel that it affected me too, but I try to remind myself that I have to stick to keep my word and that I can't take anything for granted. And that anything worth having requires effort and doesn't just fall into my lap.
I do feel worried though where our society as a whole will end up if people are getting more and more selfish. If it becomes normal to treat each other without respect, if common decency is just another victim of modern life, then are we really a progressed society? In fact, I feel as if we're actually going the other way, back to our very primal past and it'll be all about survival of the fittest again.
My generation is the generation that is blessed to have easy access to any kind of information ( a lot easier than previous generations) and thus should be the most educated one. But they not only seem to lack a lot of book knowledge/common knowledge, they also lack most of the social graces I grew up with and that I think are the very fabric of a functioning society. Because a society only works with rules that everyone accepts and follows. And not if some people just break the rules without consequences. Sadly, that's what we see every day. Politicians do it, athlethes do it, artists do it, regular people do it. It's time that YOU stop doing it.
Maybe it had something to do with my grandparents raising me when my mother had to work. I must have absorbed a lot of old-fashioned values (I'm grateful for it). As a result, I find myself to be quite strict with myself (and others). I expect a certain discipline and keeping a promise is paramount to me.
Maybe that's why I feel quite the Alien when it comes to people around my age or a bit younger. These days, people don't seem to appreciate the things they have. We live in a society where commercialism seems to equal happiness (although that's a pipe dream). Money and material possession seems to define who we are and whether or not we achieved something in life. But has it always been that way?
What's the reason that society would become like that? The way I see it, our grandparents and parents grew up with less wealth than we did. Each generation would benefit off the hard work of the previous generation (one to start it, one to establish it, the third to spend it). We're the third generation. So where will that leave the fourth generation? Will they have to start at the bottom again?
Coincidentally, older generations had more children(and sooner). My generation seems to have less children and if they do want children, they often don't seem to think about the consequences. My generation doesn't seem to care about causality, the fact that actions have consequences. They feel entitled to have whatever they desire (which I think is a result of growing up too "rich", compared to previous generations).
It's odd because I can feel that it affected me too, but I try to remind myself that I have to stick to keep my word and that I can't take anything for granted. And that anything worth having requires effort and doesn't just fall into my lap.
I do feel worried though where our society as a whole will end up if people are getting more and more selfish. If it becomes normal to treat each other without respect, if common decency is just another victim of modern life, then are we really a progressed society? In fact, I feel as if we're actually going the other way, back to our very primal past and it'll be all about survival of the fittest again.
My generation is the generation that is blessed to have easy access to any kind of information ( a lot easier than previous generations) and thus should be the most educated one. But they not only seem to lack a lot of book knowledge/common knowledge, they also lack most of the social graces I grew up with and that I think are the very fabric of a functioning society. Because a society only works with rules that everyone accepts and follows. And not if some people just break the rules without consequences. Sadly, that's what we see every day. Politicians do it, athlethes do it, artists do it, regular people do it. It's time that YOU stop doing it.
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