May 29, 2014

What is wrong with this generation...

At times I get a little nervous when I think that people my age will soon run the world. (Who runs the world...Girls!...had to have a Queen B reference.) A generation where manners and morals are a choice, and life hacks have made life a little too easy and us a little too dumb. A generation where we can Google whatever we need to know, and gain our information of the world by reading our Facebook friends post, and quick articles on BuzzFeed. But to answer the question 'What is wrong with this generation': Nothing, yet everything.
My generation did not invent the technology that we are now so dependent on, yet our parent...and even grandparents generation. My generation didn't create teen moms, yet previous generations created a show that at time brings more negative awareness than positive. oh and I hate to break it to the 20 something year olds...we apart of the same generation as the teens. Generations are not divided by decades. 
My generations (myself included) is a sad generation, everything we do has an excuse, and common sense is something that isn't so common. Pretty soon we are going to live in a world that is just like what Disney Pixar's Wall-e predicted.
Each generation has innovators that create or modify something to make it easier or more pleasurable, making the generation to follow lazier and lazier. With that being said... What makes our generation any different from the other? Nothing.
Before cars people had to walk... 20 feet in the snow, BAREFOOT!- soon these stories will not be told, because the days of walking to school miles away until you were 10 and dropped out to work will seem so fictional.
Before computers people had to go search in the library and depend on the dewey decimal system (not quite sure what that is click here)
before there was text messaging, you had to actually call people and just hope they were home...then came pagers.
Pagers for teens who idolized Cher Horowitz
Pagers for doctors
                                          
Our grandparents generation was a time of sex drugs and rock n roll, a time where believing equal right among races was taboo, and free spirited. Their parents thought they had lost their mind! And now: Sex, drugs and dub step, thinking that equal right among different sexualities makes you seem naive and off the path of righteousness. 
Our Parents generation was all about big hair over sized clothing with holes in places that was rather revealing, and neon for days. Now: The less the better, less hair, less clothes. Equally as dumb in hindsight.
Lord knows what is in store for the next generation... We will absolutely hate it, and find it incredibly stupid, and think back when, when we were no where that volgur, trashy, or classless. 

Each generation can take a lesson from previous generations. Lessons in love, responsibilities, respect, independence, creativity and especially class. I feel as though all those slowly faded away, to the point where it seem like the moment the first person of generation Y was born, manners, and respect for others and self went out the window.  (a few ruin it for all)
Despite how you feel about this generation and the laziness we have to offer, we are NOT a generation of door mats. Which cannot be said about many previous generations. We will speak up on almost anything we find unfair, and catch on pretty quickly when need be. Yes, we will be alright, in the future, we will mature, and learn from our ridiculous, embarrassing mistakes, and get it together and be the next lying politician that everyone loves to hate. Look out future Generation Y is here to stay and breed an even more annoying, rude, selfish generation.

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