I want to ask all the generations before mine if they felt the same way we do! There's such a huge difference in perspective towards life between me and say, my 'elders'. I wish I could write my dad instead of 'elders', but my ol' man is way too young at heart to be included in the 'elderly'.
For a simple example, I heard SO MUCH of 'do it when you are older' and 'do it when you are grown up' while I was growing up. Today, if I look consider doing a certain thing, the first thing that comes to my mind is 'now or never'. I mean, I have it so clear in my head that there's no tomorrow for doing what one wants to do. (Of course one indulges in procrastination, but that's for things one doesn't like doing.) So if suppose there's a place I want to visit, I must visit it today or tomorrow or at max, this weekend. The 'elders', as I know them, would indulge in a planning process to make a visit to this neighbourhood restaurant, and brood over it for months together, waiting for an occasion to happen! By the end of it, the restaurant would have either shut or well, it would have certainly lost its new-charm.
It is not only about me. I feel that my 15-year-old cousin MUST go for a roadtrip alone with friends, if she wishes to... and I want her to do it NOW! You don't need to be 30 years of age to do that! Every time my friend, who is 25 years old, asks me if she should do this or that the other, I am like... Totally, why wait?
I remember my dad telling me that he wanted to do so many things when he was in his early 20s. (This was part of our conversation when I told him several years ago that I want to move to Bombay, and he thought I wanted to run away from home to marry someone or something like that!) I, like my natural don't-understand-why-self, had plainly asked him--Then why didn't you? Well, the answer he gave me was not exactly a reason; I don't remember it now, so I know it was not a solid reason.
While I talk about the 'elders' here, I am in no way trying to say that we are right and they are wrong, or anything like that. But I am simply musing over how I (and a lot of my friends) feel about this issue.
If it is the widely-accepted 'generation gap', then I am sure it happened to our parents too. Or did it not?
For a simple example, I heard SO MUCH of 'do it when you are older' and 'do it when you are grown up' while I was growing up. Today, if I look consider doing a certain thing, the first thing that comes to my mind is 'now or never'. I mean, I have it so clear in my head that there's no tomorrow for doing what one wants to do. (Of course one indulges in procrastination, but that's for things one doesn't like doing.) So if suppose there's a place I want to visit, I must visit it today or tomorrow or at max, this weekend. The 'elders', as I know them, would indulge in a planning process to make a visit to this neighbourhood restaurant, and brood over it for months together, waiting for an occasion to happen! By the end of it, the restaurant would have either shut or well, it would have certainly lost its new-charm.
It is not only about me. I feel that my 15-year-old cousin MUST go for a roadtrip alone with friends, if she wishes to... and I want her to do it NOW! You don't need to be 30 years of age to do that! Every time my friend, who is 25 years old, asks me if she should do this or that the other, I am like... Totally, why wait?
I remember my dad telling me that he wanted to do so many things when he was in his early 20s. (This was part of our conversation when I told him several years ago that I want to move to Bombay, and he thought I wanted to run away from home to marry someone or something like that!) I, like my natural don't-understand-why-self, had plainly asked him--Then why didn't you? Well, the answer he gave me was not exactly a reason; I don't remember it now, so I know it was not a solid reason.
While I talk about the 'elders' here, I am in no way trying to say that we are right and they are wrong, or anything like that. But I am simply musing over how I (and a lot of my friends) feel about this issue.
If it is the widely-accepted 'generation gap', then I am sure it happened to our parents too. Or did it not?
