“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
Every generation has a legacy which they leave behind for their younger generations and mind it, I am not talking about Agamemnon who left a legacy of rich Greek Mythologies including the Trojan War or even about the Great Augustus who brought Rome back from the ruins of Civil war. But infact I am talking about us.
What are we like as a generation?
I remember there used to be big talks about the "Great Generation Gap" until couple of years ago when people were ranting and raving for change and change is what they got. It was the change of system, change of ways of making out, change of cuisines and change of the act of freedom. But have all these changes really changed us from a grounded human to somewhat in middle.
I know that we are not a bad generation and most of us are not barbaric so this means we did take some of the good legacies of our ancestors but then from where did we took selfishness, boredom and the likes and we became so aloof, so self-centered and so cold. Has all the "make a nice human being" campaign left us somewhere uncertain in life? There has to be a reason. Isn't it? I am afraid I don't know either but all I am doing is trying to find some answers.
It feels like a complete shift of scene and that is in a really good sense as now people atleast do walk out of their homes when they feel there is a need to louder their voices instead of sitting in front of their tele and blabbering "is desk ka kuch nai ho sakta". Also, now people feel free to shift careers or so to speak choose alternate careers and we are definitely not that afraid today to make certain alternate choices in life then why when it comes to feelings we are mortified?
Hasn't it been a very long time that we haven't heard great love stories like those of Heer-ranjh, Romeo-Juliet and Shirin farhad. What could be the reason behind this? Is it the fact that now we tag all these things as clingy and cheesy?
Since when the love had transformed into this, some new kind of emotion where you pursue it like a career and when the time comes to switch the job then it hurts only a little. Since when has it become okay to not pay heed about others feelings? And since when have we learned to let-go so easily?
As I said I don't have answers to these but would love to hear from you. Tell me. Are we as a generation paranoid of showing affection and opening our hearts to someone?
Are we not interested in having a fulfilling, consuming and everlasting relationship anymore?
Are we just lazy and do not want to invest time, blood and money into the matter of hearts as they are very fragile and easy to break?
Are we a new kind of generation altogether and if yes then what is the legacy we will be leaving behind us? you know what I think? I think it would be "let -go". Is that enough people or should we consider some change. I think we should.
