Okay! Time to write something!!!!! Oh goodness that has terrible connotation!
Oh well.... Nothing I can do about the connotation, I just have to write something meaningful now to compensate!
So, December has arrived, 十二月 (jyu ni getsu) in Japanese (and Chinese). This also marks the time when I get rather festive and think about the year that is going to end soon. These thoughts have brought me to many old and new ideas alike, and I think I have an idea which I really have to talk about.
What I really want to talk about is the state of my generation through my experiences in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, and back home in America over the past year. It is cheesy to say, but this past year has truly have been eye-opening for me in many ways. I have come to understand myself and the world better, and the individual abilities I have in this world which I can apply to my own and others' success. That being said, I have to say that I feel that this state of self-understanding and realization has changed a lot from my parent's to my generation.
Regardless of the cause, whether it be the economy or other social or political factors, many people I have met around the world my own age is what I will call "unrealized". I guess another way I can describe this sensation is that people in my generation are "not growing up" and "inexperienced". On many occasions, this has left me butt-hurt in conversations as I realize that the level of understanding I am trying to communicate at is leaving my peers either confused or confounded. To be straight about this statement, I am not trying to say that I know more or am better than any of my peers, that is far from what I am trying to say, but I am trying to say that my peers are lacking experience that I and I expect my parents' generation would expect people around my age to have.
From my experiences so far, I concluded that the majority of the "childishness" I feel is being perpetuated in my generation is a product of this inexperience. I am in many ways worried that my generation will not be able to improve upon what my parent's generation created simply from the lack of drive I see in my generation since they have not found what truly brings them happiness and self-actualization. I also understand at the same point that I set an extremely high standard for myself and the world I create around myself, so my worries might be misplaced. With both of these judgments though, I feel that I have to call out my generation to push to improve upon itself.
That being said, I am also hopeful in many ways as there are so many ideas that is available to us right now that our generation has access to. I have discovered so many ideas in my travels that I am simply bursting to realize these ideas when I finally settle back down from my travels.
I guess what I truly want to say at the end of all of this text is a call out to my generation that is either still in college, graduation college, or starting to work in the workforce to start to dream big again. It doesn't matter what it is, or if it is even possible at this time, just have a big dream to work towards so that our generation can create a better world than what our parents have given us, and hopefully a world upon which our children will have to try even harder to improve! Like Steve Jobs said (who I know many of you worship), "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish". Realized dreams is a product of this.
Good night all! I am going to bed!