04-29-2019, 11:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-29-2019, 11:26 PM by AspieMillennial.)
(04-29-2019, 11:20 PM)taramarie Wrote:(04-29-2019, 11:01 PM)AspieMillennial Wrote:Quote:I hate to say it but the future does belong to them. When we are old and will die, they will be alive and thrive and build the world to their liking. We have our time. They have theirs too. We can advise, we cannot force the future to our liking when we are irrelevant and we will be irrelevant one day to the young which will come sooner than you think. We would need political power to ensure that we have those needs and desires met in ways that that can ensure that we are ok, but eventually they would take control. You cannot stop the tide. The waves of the ocean cannot be stopped when in mass. You can try to stand up to bullies when together, but the future belongs to the young in the end. The best we can do is create understanding and not alienate them.
But this isn't my time and I'm young; all of the changes people seem to want now are changes I don't want so it's like I'm not being represented at all. Since in my youth, my desires were not represented, I will sure as hell try to push my desires when I'm old. I don't want things like lab grown meat yet changes like that are going to be pushed on me just because "society says so". I don't like the cultural changes happening in the youth and I can't fully relate to the older generations either. I know I can't change the world so I decide to opt out of it and only push things out of my personal way so nothing affects my personal life. This is why I'm so pushy; I have to be if I'm going to be against an overwhelming tide. Since my time didn't happen when young, I will be pushier when old. I'm not dead yet so it's still my world no matter what age I am. I see it as hypocritical if the older generation gives into their children to have things that they want to deny me. It's not fair so I'll call it like it is. I always saw it as hypocritical that nobody defended the people who were forced to get lobotomies in the 1940s and 1950s yet somehow when their brat kids started protesting then all of a sudden they gave into them just because they were the new youth. Oh it's okay for their brat kids to be different and even disrespectful criminals but God forbid their peers were even slightly out of the norm. That is hypocrisy.
Cant say I am fully convinced we cant change the world as we can do our bit and it starts within us then around us. I hear you on the pushy thing. When people don't listen it is frustrating. Yes we are in a worse situation than our parents were at the same age. Sucks to be the civic type at this time in our lives. Yes you tell them. It is not fair and I am a straight up person too so I appreciate that. Thing is what can be done to make the greatest impact for what you do want? Yes there is a lot of hypocrisy I find in older people and what they taught. It reads as do as I say, not as I do...….because I taught you better than that. Thing is I also think to myself, for some older folk....maybe they learned as they aged? It really does depend on context of each individual situation.
This is why I'm focused on having fun and doing whatever I want in the 4T. It's useless to try to plant seeds in the winter so you do things like going sledding or drinking hot chocolate or skiing. I don't see the world as having to be worse than they had it. We can use this time to have fun until it's all over with. Doing the right thing typically results in no results so my solution is to not focus on doing what "society" says so and live life like you're a cancer patient with a year left to live. I only live once so I'm spending my youth doing the "wrong thing" even if it results in failure because there's no security in a 4T anyways. There is no way we can waste a 4T. Since there is no security, this is the best time to do whatever you want and have a nothing to lose attitude.