GENERATION GAP

It is time the child is knocking the doors of puberty and is on the point of experiencing the arrival of sweet teens, during this phase the body experiences a rapid physical and psychological growth. Puberty is followed by adolescence, the point of entering adulthood. As such there is no demarcating line separating puberty and adolescence.

  

Thoughts start consolidating and the teenager starts have a firm belief of its own on an issue, on a topic, it can be an event too.

When the teenager’s belief and the belief of its parent do not match, when their opinion differ, we call it “GENERATION GAP”

As the name suggests it is a gap between two generations; namely the preceding generation and the succeeding generation, the elder generation and the younger generation.

The younger generation operates, focusing on the future. The elder generation operates,  referring to the past. The younger generation operates on hopes, the elder generation operates on experience.

One sees the need of a smartphone, the other needs an instrument to talk, one sees the need of high end laptop the other sees the need of an accounting and a computing machine. Both may be right but then does it address the prevailing generation gap?

Time changes, values change, perceptions change and along with it change the needs. Bicycle was a luxury then, car is a necessity now; landline was a luxury then, smartphone is a necessity now; graduation was respectable then, doctorate is common now; flying was a dream then, frequent flying is a reality now.

In the Indian culture one of the names of the world we live in is (sansar) its elaboration is (sansarti iti sansar). It means that which is change all the time. The only permanent thing about this world is “It is permanently changing”. In short it is dynamic.

Once a friend of mine happened to travel by train, no sooner did he enter the platform, he saw that the train had already started moving. Now to get on board what should my friend do? He should run, isn’t it? but then, how fast? Obviously a little faster than the train.

Here lies the answer, to be in touch with a dynamic thing you need to be dynamic, not only dynamic but dynamic to the right extent if we want to board the train. It is not only about being physically dynamic, equal emphasis should be laid on being dynamic mentally. 

The younger generation is dynamic, they are always up to something, the pool of energy within them renders them restless. 

Youth is a symbol of energy and old age is a symbol of wisdom. Let the younger generation and the elder generation join hands together, to minimize, to nullify the Generation Gap and synergize  a better tomorrow, a better life and a better world.