Bored bored bored.
I had to go to the garage today and while I was waiting I met this really really old guy. He survived Pearl Harbor. You can't help but make that a topic of conversation. He was talking about how hard it is to go to every memorial, to be on every parade float. He puts on a smile and does it anyways, but it's not easy. Back then he would have considered himself lucky to have lived past the age of 50, and now, here he is, it's been 65 years since Pearl Harbor.
This whole generation gap is really odd. It started with our parents. My grandparents are still obsessed with etiquette and chivalry and their generation still had the passion to care and fight for something they believed in. They call this generation [my generation] 'Generation RX' because we're entirely medicated, ADHD, Depression. There's pills to fix every little quirk about you. And in the end, whether it's perscribed or not, most people are too fucked up constantly to have the time of day to care about anything passionately, which I'm sure is not that case, it just seems that way. I'd also put the blame on the dependancy we have when it comes to technology. Every person I know ends up spending their money on upgrading their computers/cell phones/gaming systems/and so on. I'm not sure when any of them will leave Utah and start their own lives because they're incapable of saving more than a penny from every paycheck. Another lady who was at the garage had a cell phone glued to her ear. Her little boy was running all over the place, trying to tip over tires, and not once did she put down the phone and tell him to knock it off. I guess I wouldn't have such a problem with population control if all the people being born had a good head on their shoulders, inventors, philosophers, people like that. I'm not saying none of those people do exist or that there isn't a great leader born every day, but we're running on short supply, there is no motivation. At the same time, I'm morally opposed to genetic engineering.
Blah blah blah, I just don't know anymore.
This whole generation gap is really odd. It started with our parents. My grandparents are still obsessed with etiquette and chivalry and their generation still had the passion to care and fight for something they believed in. They call this generation [my generation] 'Generation RX' because we're entirely medicated, ADHD, Depression. There's pills to fix every little quirk about you. And in the end, whether it's perscribed or not, most people are too fucked up constantly to have the time of day to care about anything passionately, which I'm sure is not that case, it just seems that way. I'd also put the blame on the dependancy we have when it comes to technology. Every person I know ends up spending their money on upgrading their computers/cell phones/gaming systems/and so on. I'm not sure when any of them will leave Utah and start their own lives because they're incapable of saving more than a penny from every paycheck. Another lady who was at the garage had a cell phone glued to her ear. Her little boy was running all over the place, trying to tip over tires, and not once did she put down the phone and tell him to knock it off. I guess I wouldn't have such a problem with population control if all the people being born had a good head on their shoulders, inventors, philosophers, people like that. I'm not saying none of those people do exist or that there isn't a great leader born every day, but we're running on short supply, there is no motivation. At the same time, I'm morally opposed to genetic engineering.
Blah blah blah, I just don't know anymore.