A Gen Z adventure
There's a set of rules we need to follow, but the rule book burned down two global crises ago.
There are expectations we need to live up to ever since birth, and they come with their more than unfair share of doubt.
We are thrusted into a chaotic world with the quest to bring order.
Now, I do not mean to generalize and put all us in the same category (since enough of that is being done by everyone else), but I have hard time understanding why I am being told that I am so different from all of you, but seem to be troubled with that same problems as the rest of you. Maybe we aren't different at all. Not the enigma of potential that God created with a special mold, or the light in this dark dark world.
Maybe we are all too similar. We all love to escape, and we are great at it. It seems like the only purpose we have, escape from our so-called quest, and to hide in our comfort zones. Escape and hide.
Courage, this word seems childish now for some reason, we or atleast I am too desensitized to its power, from reading it again and again in the children's stories and from hearing it from our parents and teachers, ‘one should always be courageous’, they said. We never really took that lesson to our heart did we. We are filled with this inferiority complex, this feeling of being less and incompetent and yet we still can't leave our devices that this feeling originates from. Wow, that really did sound like my mom.
The point is we are going further and further away from the human aim to self actualization to the point, every day becomes a battle to breathe and survive. We are so entrapped in wondering what others think of us and how to better their opinion of us rather than better ourselves.
This isn't a ‘me’ problem but an ‘us’ problem, a generational crisis. Brad Pitt had this line in fight club “...we have no great war, or great depression, our great war is a spiritual one…”.
Author & Photographer - Kaustubh
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