Most of you are probably fed up by phrases like "in the 90s", "we, the 90's kids did that and that", but recently I have not been able to do anything else but think that the differences really are huge. I am not disregarding changes from the 80s to the 90s. Any generation changes from the previous one and evolves into a next one. That is how we humans live, by evolving. As I totally agree that the changes have made our life better (like hell I would change the fact of how easy it is to find the answer to any question by googling it), I still find it sad that the youth of this generation is really not taking advantage of it, but becoming merely a tool. A tool of what? Technology I guess and the impression that they will have an easy life all the time.
When I was kid, the things I thought as most precious to me were my friends and the time spent playing with them, fighting with them, creating our own world away from the nagging of the adults. It was peaceful, and most of all we had a playground where we could easily run barefoot just because it felt great to run and save your friends while playing hide and seek. When I was old enough to go to school, I hated home and the pretenses that used to await for me for being an exellent student and living to the expectations of my parents. I did not hate my parents, I just hated the fact that I was turning into the adults I so much resented because I had come to understand that the time I had to play now was limited, and the time I could sincerely spend with my friends was over as they had started to become adults as well. I hated school as well, because I never found the sincerity I found in my childhood friends, but I loved how I could learn new things, new ways to interact, fool and be fooled by people. Because I got stabbed in the back so many times, then I stopped looking for the warmth of my childhood friends, into my classmates, so I dedicated myself even more to studying hoping that one days it would lead me to somewhere and someday when I would never had to pretend to be someone else again. I do not think I was ever liked by my classmates because I would never spend too much time apart from studying and extra curricular school-related acitivties, yet I did give my best, and that time is the only time I remember mostly of my teen years. I remember the taste of victory of managing to go through a school project, I remember the taste of screaming in joy after winning competitions against other schools. All those projects made me feel alive, and made me feel I could be someone I could contribute to my society, so I started to try to understand a little better the pre-adult world. I now see kids of that age hanging around school just for the sake of being there and getting a good grade. No motivation so far to do anything with their own classmates because they are afraid that even if they do something, someone else is going to take the credit. I watch them sitting in their desks with "why-s" written all over their faces as to why they should even care about growing or just about caring of what happens until they get out to real life.
I do not blame them. I was lucky enough to have teachers and mentors to try to get the best out of me so that I could do something to feel good about myself. Yet, I cannot do anything but resent them because they prefer sharing useless statuses on their facebook profiles instead of actually learning how is the mechanism that makes facebook so popular.
Having said all those, today's song is "Kids" of MGMT. Enjoy!
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