And lately I'm getting the message that more & more of us are lost.
Re: age. I've recently been going through the same thoughts (why hello there, 29, nice meeting you, no really, now get the BLEEP out). I think the people who are currently in their 20s are a bit of a lost generation. We've grown up with well to-do parents, richer than their parents, in any case. We've been told and taught by our families, society and media that anything was possible. You can be whoever you want! You can achieve anything! Travel the world, have a great job, a fabulous family, buy a house, be a merry bachelor, whatevs floats your boat. As long as you want it badly enough, it's there for the picking!
Reality turned out so different. We're poorer than our parents (e.g. nobody here can buy a house unless the parents chip in), we're stuck in sucky jobs with our fabulous human sciences diploma's... Most of my friends are getting married and having babies, building families just like the ones they grew up in. I'm not saying that's bad, but it's a far cry from all those dreams we were fed as we grew up. It's disconcerting.
I often feel lost over that discrepancy between how I was supposed to have been handed all these opportunities, all these possibilities and all that freedom and how little I've managed to do with them so far. Oh, so I can do whatever I want? Ummm. I don't know what I want. Like, at all. I feel guilty over that, because it feeds into this wrong reasoning that I'm to blame - if only I had known what I wanted, it would have fallen into my lap, you know?
Oh god, I'm rambling! All this to say that I identify with what you're saying and I've heard many of my friends share similar feelings. It definitely defines our generation. We're like the generation of lost opportunities or something.
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Date: 2011-01-20 03:53 pm (UTC)And lately I'm getting the message that more & more of us are lost.
Re: age. I've recently been going through the same thoughts (why hello there, 29, nice meeting you, no really, now get the BLEEP out). I think the people who are currently in their 20s are a bit of a lost generation. We've grown up with well to-do parents, richer than their parents, in any case. We've been told and taught by our families, society and media that anything was possible. You can be whoever you want! You can achieve anything! Travel the world, have a great job, a fabulous family, buy a house, be a merry bachelor, whatevs floats your boat. As long as you want it badly enough, it's there for the picking!
Reality turned out so different. We're poorer than our parents (e.g. nobody here can buy a house unless the parents chip in), we're stuck in sucky jobs with our fabulous human sciences diploma's... Most of my friends are getting married and having babies, building families just like the ones they grew up in. I'm not saying that's bad, but it's a far cry from all those dreams we were fed as we grew up. It's disconcerting.
I often feel lost over that discrepancy between how I was supposed to have been handed all these opportunities, all these possibilities and all that freedom and how little I've managed to do with them so far. Oh, so I can do whatever I want? Ummm. I don't know what I want. Like, at all. I feel guilty over that, because it feeds into this wrong reasoning that I'm to blame - if only I had known what I wanted, it would have fallen into my lap, you know?
Oh god, I'm rambling! All this to say that I identify with what you're saying and I've heard many of my friends share similar feelings. It definitely defines our generation. We're like the generation of lost opportunities or something.