Generation refers to a group of people who are born and who
live at the same time. Generation gap is something which has been there since
this cycle began and will remain until we become extinct. It has been a very
common trend to blame people who belong to the so called other generation. Our
elders reprimand us for being a bad generation and we laugh at today’s children
for being a bad generation.
Generation is not supposed to remain the same, it is the
rule of the nature to change as change is the only thing which is permanent and
it should be. People who are in their twenties now would claim that they had
not even used a phone (mobile), even when they were in high school, most of
them would. A phone which is available at rupees six thousand now would cost
around twenty thousand then and however rich you are or you were, it matters
and it would matter. A friend made everything clear one night, we were actually
afraid of using such gadgets. One will not be able to deny that, we were very
much afraid of the consequences.
Internet is easily available now and children prefer to ask Google
about their problems instead of asking their parents or teachers, they are just
one click away from all the answers. Google has now become the Gita and Quran.
Today children are smarter and are leading happy and easy lives, the definition
of difficulty has also changed and that is the reason everyone can
differentiate; still there are children who do not get a glimpse of such
virtual universe, somewhere in your mind you might think that those children
are leading better lives.
The definition of childhood has changed too and the next
fifty years might bring out something even newer or the stone may roll back to
where it used o be. This is generation and it evolves.
