Finding the Answers

A though provoking bit of writing on that card. I wonder if the generations which are coming and which have come in the last ten years feel more lost than those who have come before us? I feel like there were fewer options and more set ways when other generations were coming through, but now, as we move through our college years and the years scarcely a few years past we have so many more options, and thus it is so much more complicated than it used to be. 

I think a ton of people walk around waiting for the answers to drop on their heads. It doesn't tend to happen that way, but what if. If we had a family business, though we'd rebel and think we wanted other choices, most would inevitably end up working in the family business with the stress removed and their lives set out before them. But as family businesses fall to the major corporations, one now has to pick a job which he/she may or may not be qualified for and go for it. 

The worst part is trying to choose. It is hard to change careers these days because one career tends to take a ton of training. 

So yes, I think we take a ton of our lives trying to find the answers to our questions. We do not head straight into a line of work as many used to, and science is ever complicating our lives by breaking everything we knew down a step further into what we now have to re-learn.

The Generations after us will know more, be taught Pluto isn't a planet, and will be much more computer literate than we could ever hope to be in our lifetimes. I was taught typing on a typewriter in middle school for peat’s sake. I even had to take cotillion classes to learn how to ballroom dance. GAH! So, as we're emerging into the world and re-learning all the things which have changed since we were kids, we're constantly in a struggle to figure out who we are. 

Even in love we're complicated. It is hard to meet people these days once you're out of school. You are not introduced to social families anymore, and you are hardly ever invited to 'real' social engagements these days. So where does that leave many people? In the dusk of a time when things were much easier, and life was easier to live and get it over with.

okay, end mind boggling philosophical rant...