Sunday, January 27, 2008

The generations

“We can’t understand them.”
“They are different; I can’t even imagine those kinds of behaviours.”
“I don’t know what is going on in their minds.”
“Unfortunately there is a deep vale between our generation and the new generation.”
Haven’t you heard or faced to these sorts of sentences? Don’t you familiar with such expressions?
For lots of days, that was my basic question: is there a HUGE difference between old generation and the new ones? And what make people think that those differences separate them from the new generation? I personally believe that there are some distinctions between me and my father and my grandfather and my younger cousins but that is not something strange and abnormal if you understand the essence of time.
Consider four generations: your grandparents, your parents, you and people in the same ages as you and younger children as the new generation. You are able to mark many obvious changes in the behaviours owing to the modification of the quality of the life from your grandparents’ time to now. Each person in any era has a certain and special behaviour BUT as the time runs, he or she should refine or modify his or her routine demeanour so that he or she can communicate with other people. The big problem occurs when we thermodynamically like to remain immovable and regretfully begin to fight with new ideas and behaviours especially those which are not alike to our opinions. So we are responsible for the 50% of the problem and as a result we have to recognize the specifications of the present time and reconsider our manners.
But what about the other 50? I myself think that we can’t expect the new generations adopt their fields of interests according to our anticipations but we can teach them respect and dignity so they will be led to higher level of understanding different people. You know, I mean this is not our duty to force them behave in the way we like or accept, our responsibility is to show them the correct way of behaving people with respect to their personality.
To wrap it up, I individually believe that there is no deep valley and no unusual gap between our generation and the new generation. What I can see are the simple differences exist because of the nature of the time. By being acquainted with the properties of an exact time and improving our conformity parallel with showing the new generation how to admire other ideas we can gradually access to an agreement with different generations specially the new ones and communicate with them in a pleasant way.

4 comments:

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Nava said...

Well, it was a very well structured argument. Still, if you consider "defining" a generation, the differences could be vast, or not that much. For example, you could define a generation by the simplest definition: having an age difference of 25 years, or you could consider the historical eras and then you can see that there could be a huge difference between the generation of born ~1350s and ~1360s. You wouldn't see this difference between ~1330s and ~1340s, or even ~1360s and ~1370s. So it depends on the generations, although some generations have also high expectations I confess.

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