Our generation:
What generations? There are trends
in certain generations at least in the West, but this hasn’t always been the
case and it isn’t even a blanket statement now. Not everyone of a generation is
___________(fill in the blank). I think sometimes the term generation is used
to put a group of people in a box. This Box can then be handled in a certain way
according to certain rules. The problem is that this might be true to see societal
moves for academic study, but it is horrible to use when it comes to people as
individuals. It is also horrible to use to justify one’s personal choices.
If you are doing something it is because
you believe it not because of your generations. There are lots of people who
choose to not believe, live or conform to their generation. So saying that your
generation does/believes something gives a person the justification they are
not alone or perhaps it isn’t their fault. But how we continue to live our lives
is always our choice. It is always our fault if there is a fault to bear.
When we look at other people and say
your generation. We lump persons into a box and can justify dealing with the
individual the way we would deal with the box of ideas we have decided they are
in. This is also true when it comes to genders and race but that is another
subject. Once we put someone in that box, we can deal with them as we do would
that box.
We need to remember we deal with
people, not generations. They may have some of the aspects of one group but let’s
not be too quick to put someone in that box or even to put ourselves in that
box. For the latter when we put ourselves in a box we surrender our choices to a
group. We need to own them and say they are ours for the good or the bad.
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