Shuffling a Rebels Perfection

It shuffles me to know that individuals find it easier to fight their own insecurities of justifying themselves in denial of a selfless yet selfish life than to actually fix the issues in their life. Why search for something or more so question everything when you already know the answer or where it is. Yea I can fathom how things can be tough and we don’t always get along with all the folk in the world but isn’t that life? “Keep your friends close but keep your enemies closer” is this not true? Creating some superstitious judgement or assumption of the ones you once shadowed is this not merely judging yourself? If you create walls in your life to hide from the truth or to avoid the guilt trip, make sure you are ready to break down those walls yourself when you come tumbling down!! If you are searching for something more than what you had found - did you really find something in the beginning? True this may be, but why follow it in denial, in deception for so long? When you could either choose to cut loose from it all or (as it appeared) hop on the train and actually go to the destination? Placing the blame on others or using others for excuses to justify your own selfish treks is just sad… if you think playing some kind of political football match or a blame game will justify or morally dignify your attitudes and actions than obviously you don’t even understand why you are doing it. Take all these people and excuses out of your lives and what do you have? Nothing… or pure confusion of what to do, who to follow and no idea of your own self-identity.

If you seriously want to go your way that’s fine but I don’t see any truth or reason for you to make your way back when it was merely to prove a point or to experience the apparent joys of a destructive path. I think you’re on a path to find a perfection of your own self-identity which doesn’t exist.

“People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it” - Edith Schaeffer

“Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but he can accomplish nothing which abolishes the choice of God.” - Karl Barth

A Society of Generational Cultures

So I was casually catching up for coffee with a dear friend and one of the conversations we continually erupted was the controversial points regarding the differences between our generation and views on social conduct and living; in comparison to the emerging generations and their new culture towards attitudes and their own social conduct to life. Being of the later Gen Y and missing the introduction of Gen Z by a little gap I have become aware of mutual environments between the two as well as the complete opposite understandings to mannerisms, the community culture and socialism itself. It was barely 3years ago I left school with such high regard and opinion of what a stuffed up world we were living in. The amount of peer pressured parties and socially accepted underage ‘doing’s’ I thought it was as bad as it could get. But then within that year level we had the younger folk and the older which were still in the Gen Y bracket yet they had more flow or standing towards the Gen Z nature. This being they have grown up with a high sophisticated media and computer environment and are more Internet savvy and expert than their Gen Y forerunners. This is where I call the mutual playing field as the ladder Gen Y will have this environment embedded into them naturally depending on the status at home and social group. Basically this: “Gen Y kids are known as incredibly sophisticated, technology wise, immune to most traditional marketing and sales pitches...as they not only grew up with it all, they’ve seen it all and been exposed to it all since early childhood.”

Now I mentioned peer pressured parties and socially accepted underage ‘doing’s’ there was a mutual ground here too! I found that the younger of our peers were more easily let go when it came to drinking and… mind me “piss ups and hook ups”. Compare this to the new Gen Z and we can see the older ones of the group have taken this to the next level again. What I thought was bad was only the tip of the iceberg today. Parties are not just generalised as a place for underage alcohol consumption let alone underage sexual encounters but this is what they are known for! Then we have the society’s tolerance of pre-teen responsibility. This being there choice or opportunity to drink at 13, to start experimenting in the sex crazed world. I just can’t believe how from being in year 10 to now being a 3^rd year Uni student has become such a mere reflection. The decisions and choices that I am or someone of my generation is confronted with everyday are the same of today’s 14 year olds in year 9. By the time they reach VCE they have made majority of their life changing decisions or experienced it all before it was intended. Now don’t even get me started with their attitude! I mean yes everyone has a different home life and different environments we live in but where did this proud, quick-nit and back chatting attitude come from. Yes I am talking about those ‘teenie-boppers’ we see pouncing around the shopping centres and their stuck up attitudes that they own the place and no authority can stop them even If they have a say! Basically they defy their parents, making their own parental decisions and essentially running amuck whenever they want.

I guess the question is what caused all this? We have seemed to jump from one level of peer pressure and escalated into pressured peers! What I mean is; with the aid of the information age the ability to be introduced to this new culture of society is found in seconds! The iPhone was released when I was finishing year 12, which meant the iPhone was enabling year 8’s with a whole new world plus pre introduction to what will dominate society’s communication. So with a new technical language, the ability to communicate in whole new way, with opportunities being made available within seconds; basically we have created a generation leap of decisions and responsibilities to a group who should not have to worry about these things.

The unfortunate thing is parents or even the younger parents still have this idea that their kids are living in a world like it was their day even if their day was 4 – 6 years ago. I think you need to rethink and be re-educated about why your teens/pre-teens are acting the way they do. We may not be cool anymore but we most defiantly are smarter! It’s only there snappy, emotional, controlling and arrogant attitudes you need to overcome…

This is just a few snippets of what is so much more…