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.

Murphy's Frikking Law

Have you found yourself bogged down by every traffic signal?
Do you feel the queue adjacent to yours moves faster, almost always?
Do you wonder why the train you want to catch when you're on time is late and when you're late, just sticks to schedule?
Have you found the internet to disconnect at the time the most interesting conversation possible is happening?
What about the times you've really loved food at a restaurant and the one time you recommended it to someone else, the food sucked?
Do you agree that it rains the most when you're least prepared with rain gear?
Do you find holidays passing by in a jiffy while exams stretching on for eternity?
How many times have you reached early and your boss hasn't taken notice, while the one time you've reached late, you've gotten an absent mark/half day?
Have you given in to a movie's general public review which is awesome, and expected it to be great, but ended up disappointed?
Do you find the washroom always occupied when the urgency to pee is the greatest?
Have you spent days when you are jobless without attending a single call, and received a million calls when you're busy?
So much for Murphy's frikkin law..