Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sreya-ism : Our generation and not?

A spin off from a conversation with a friend who knows me from campus days) 

I /we: ( friends and others in my age 'bracket') belong to a generation that does not age. It's a strange space we are in though. We know when we need to pull up our socks and take the decisions we need to. Responsible too for the mistakes we make and not immature to put the blame on another. That's wh
ere we 'act ' our age to the T.

Yet we also know when and how to let our hair down. We know how to have fun and we feel in our late teens and perhaps early 20's still  We dont believe in silly ego hassles and the world for us ,is still one big college campus where we continue to sing the ballads so close. We even know how to laugh at our follies and not be ashamed to rectify them. We don't believe in pretense and don't believe in mincing our words, yet appreciating decorum, ethics and sometimes a pedantic when it comes to etiquette

Why? Why are we a generation such?

Among many reasons the one that stands out is the time we have passed through. We came and saw through a time and age that moved from almost no internet, to some internet to a world controlled by technology and the would wide web. That makes a difference. A BIG difference where we knew what it meant to wait for the book requisitioned in the reference section to an age of click search and google. We have seen both sides. We know patience and the need to wait. Yet we realise the 'click, use and throw' trends of today too.
We appreciate gratitude , loyalty and ethics yet don't get surprised with a lack of it. We realise that trends of technology are getting replicated in human behaviour. As if we are just human apps sometimes.

We see both sides : teenage days and closing in on 40. We know how to adjust and we thus are happy to view and adapt to a world which we saw rapidly changing from our 20's. We like being there and yet have no hang ups to pace ourselves to the demands of the new age 
 

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