trickztr:

Fight Club summed it up pretty nice when Tyler Durden’s character called his generation the ‘middle children of History’. I think that somewhat applies to us.

Except. We’re not exactly that. Our generation has witnessed the Technological Boom, at least 2 major wars between Western and Middle-Eastern countries, countless genocides, the destruction of one the main capitalist symbols, several civil riots, dictators falling… The expansion and annihilation of democracy.

And yet, we’re all overgrown kids. It’s as though such cultural accomplishments and tragedies have made us numb. Too much in too little time.

We’re told by our elders, over and over again, how much potential we have and doing nothing with it. Teenagers making fortune from computer-related business or discovering a possible cure for cancer, while mid-20ers are living at home deciding what to do with a degree they never really wanted to begin with. Or whether or not they should give college a try. Or what kind of a job to get - are there jobs out there?

Told to get off their asses and marry and have kids and buy a house and a mini-van. “When I was your age…” being the most popular conversation starter between parents and their children. When they were our age they were playing by the rules and doing what was expected of them - which, fine. Okay. If that worked for them, great. But our generation has no rules. Nothing’s expected of us.  We’re all at sea, wandering, trying to figure out how to sail without any wind.

It’s not some big, emo tragedy, but it is rather… Complex. Freedom is, indeed, a length of rope that God wants us to hang ourselves with.

Forty years ago, what someone our age had most to fear was whether or not their birth date would be sorted by the government to shipped off to some war they didn’t understand or, in my country’s case, whether or not the government considered them to subversive. Today, the most terrifying thing for people like is us asking “where do you see yourself in 5 years?”.

Constant thought. Couldn’t say it better.