Well! It was during one of a conversation with a colleague of mine that we started talking about the changes in attitude of a slightly younger age group nowadays. The slightly younger I realized was not more than a five year younger to me or the average adult. While I could still connect a little more to the way these slightly younger people think, she couldn’t! While I still felt that I was one of them in some ways, she felt she was a generation behind from them.
Things around us are changing way too fast! In terms of social media for example, by the time you get used to Instagram, the world may call you outdated saying that “Snapchat” is the new in. By the time you master one particular technique or idea in your professional field, someone who joined a year later to you may come up saying that this is an old-way to work! Till a few years back where a range of 25-28 was considered ideal to get married and have a child, today most people have their own definition of “settlement”, where getting into stereotypical institutions and a nine to five job was once considered awesome, risking everything for a dream is cooler in today’s date! While walking out of a bad job or a nasty relation may not have been an option once, the past few years have surely taken us ahead in time and no one wants to be stuck with something or someone they do not like. We are rushing, we are impatient, and so is the generation gap! Where technically a generation is an average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their off-springs, nowadays I am sure even the generation gap doesn’t have time enough to wait for that long a duration! Differences in basic attitude and a lack of understanding amongst people, which earlier took a minimum of fifteen plus years have now come down to a three to five year age range! In general, the ones who still hold on to certain firm principals may be considered as the ones lacking in something, and the ones who have a take it easy attitude for everything ranging from work to wedding may be the ones who are more adaptable and acceptable by the so-called trending generation! Here the question “who is right?” can be debatable! Where in some aspects holding on firmly to your principals may be the right thing to do, in other aspects taking it easy should be the mantra.
Yes, the gap has reduced, because of the everyday changes in technology and thinking. Any such gap that you are not able to cope up with may constitute a generation gap for you, where people fail to recognize with your ideas, thoughts, and actions. I am sure it’s not possible for everyone to rush and cope up with these everyday changes? I guess the only way to live through it is to stay at your own pace; catch up with the things which you want to, and pause at the places where you don’t want to rush. Adapt and change for good where it is needed rather than being stuck at obnoxiously orthodox ideas, and be yourself at points where it is necessary to put a halt at the excessively rushing outside world. At the end, it isn’t about the number of generations that are existing together it’s about the harmony with which they exist.
(p.s: Thank You for reading this, and well! if you do like my posts then do wait for my next, it's on what true Feminism is: Living your rights in the right way, or shouting loud for your rights in all the wrong manners?)
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