A generational thing
Katy Perry is banned from Sesame Street, Gaga dons raw meat and rallies against homophobia, and Lindsay Lohan revisits the slammer in cuffs. This year鈥檚 Sleaze Ball may be the last, and a Melbourne hacker triggers a global Twitter scare.
Prepare yourself for Facebook, the movie.
Most of this may be inconsequential to older generations. And a recent visit to Mum鈥檚 place reminded me of a great number of generational variants.
Mum enjoys her crosswords. She takes cheques to the post office, and inspects the brochures for specials. I still can鈥檛 convince her to get a mobile. She wouldn鈥檛 dream of hiring a cleaner, and prefers the bus to paying a cabbie 鈥� even if she nearly kills herself in the process.
Younger gens are happy to pay for convenience. Time is money. You won鈥檛 catch me cleaning an oven any time soon. And I can鈥榯 remember the last time I went to a post office.
Mum chats to just about every shop assistant, savouring a cappuccino in her travels. Grocery shopping for me is a hurried affair. If I鈥檓 not cyber-shopping, it鈥檚 no more than 15 minutes in and out. And while we鈥檙e inclined to jump online for info, older gens might reach for the faithful encyclopaedia.
Maybe it鈥檚 the evening chardy speaking, but despite my exasperation with certain old-school customs, there鈥檚 something comforting about the uncomplicated routines and homespun pragmatism.
Instead of trying to convince 鈥榯he olds鈥� that our way is faster and better, maybe they鈥檙e content with things the way they are. Maybe it鈥檚 not a matter of right and wrong. Maybe it鈥檚 just personal preference 鈥� a generational thing. Although Mum does have her eye on the MacBook Pro. Bless.
I鈥檒l totally squander hours scouting for the closest restaurant doing home delivery. Meanwhile, Mum鈥檚 likely to have whipped up a stroganoff with ingredients bought at half price from 鈥渢hat nice chap at Coles鈥�.
And so, dear readers, don鈥檛 dismiss all oldies as dithering old fossils. Whatever your generational ilk, they can be quite a wealth of knowledge. Remember, they have lived a lifetime before us.
Nevertheless, I don鈥檛 do ovens. And I may still rock up to Sleaze Ball in handcuffs and raw meat.
Vive la diff茅rence!
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Hey Im gen y and I do not take previous generations for granted ….. I think I am turning into my mother too :-)
That is so true, no one cares about the struggles the previous generations had to endeavour for our freedoms (and I鈥檓 not just talking about gay rights)
Here here they have lived a lifetime. It is a shame that, mostly Sydney but other places as well, judge older people. You don’t have to have sex with them but have some respect. They have done things so Gen Y can have their freedoms.