Saturday, February 12, 2005

Generation Gap

Hey every1
I’m back again! Thanks so much Shubhi for posting the pic. Anyways, I’m, finally going to watch BLACK tomorrow (morning show). The initial plan, however, was to see it this evening but couldn’t get the tickets. Wondering if my exams are really coming up? Well, don’t bother yourself too much cause I’m doing that work for myself!!
The past few days, I was having a sort of fight with my mom (which is now, non-existent). And this made me wonder that has the generation gap, all the people keep talking about, started to bury its roots in India too? I mean, I know it was always there but it’s surely not as much as in the western countries or at least I think so. I talk of the increasing generation gap, today.

This topic is not new to anybody. In today’s world, with each passing day, it is becoming quite apparent that there is increasing difference in opinion of the old generation and the new generation.
Some say the young grab the victory as are not taught to loose any battle. But they are not taught the principles on the battlefield. They lack respect and maturity. Today’s world demands sharpness and if required, false friendships.
A baby isn’t born with the essentials to survive. The parents are the ones who inculcate values, good or bad. And I guess, when those virtues of this generation backfire, people call it ‘the generation gap.’
The world is too huge to be generalized and as I’ve said in my post ‘Don’t generalize’, I don’t like generalizing; public opinion differs from person to person. Most People possess dual personalities. Today’s world also known as ‘the kal yug’ in the Hindu mythology, brings with it vast destruction and immorality. Keeping that in mind, people prefer to teach their children the ways to survive than real values. Where on the other hand, they expect their children to have all those values and respect when it comes to them. Is it expecting too much? Well, that is quite a debatable thought.
I guess, it’s actually the high expectations of the parents, which lead to such circumstances. Not that they don’t have the right to expect, that too, when they are putting in all they have in their child but it’s a question of the growing desire of freedom to live one’s own life that makes today’s generation revolt.
Even I don’t know whether I’m really right but whatever.
Signing off for now…..

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

i didn't noe u wer dat philosophical...

6:46 PM, February 12, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This entry was really well written.

The Generation gap is something I guess that will never ever dissapear.

For one things that are considered taboo today will be passe tommorrow.

Which of course brings about the whole issue of adjusting to this whole new set of values.

Second of course is the control thing.

I guess its something that comes packaged with the word Mom and Dad.

Nevertheless perhaps the only way out I guess is coming to terms with it.

Like it or hate it...we all gotta live with it

6:53 AM, February 14, 2005  

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