We @ now

The world has changed. Someday perhaps, the gen-next-to-ours is going to tell us that. I’ll tell you how we are different from the gen-before-ours.

We do not believe in organized religion, but are pro-humanity. We do not believe in the age old adage of “Early to bed, Early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.” We are very okay with sleeping late, getting up late and still being fit, rich and learned. Late is a subjective term, right?

We don’t mind paying a premium for all that is good. We can spend a fortune on the movies and yet earn all that money easy. We want to spend early, and save early. Even the value conscious Indian mentality in us is facing a change.

We are consumerist and need our gadgets to be top notch. We may be smarter than the gen-before-ours but not as sincere as them.

We believe that being on Facebook and listening to blaring music just helps us study better. We kids don’t believe that staying in touch with their aunt’s-father’s-brother’s-wife’s-grandson is necessary. We are the young guns who think India has a great future, despite knowing all its flaws.

We are value-driven and environmentally responsible. A lot of the credit goes to our parents for educating us that way. We are independent and like being treated so. We may not know how to write our mother tongue, but know about all the intricacies of the English language.

It is ironical, however, that I don’t look forward to this debate with the gen-next-to-ours. I trust them to be more equipped than us somehow.