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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Gen X or Gen C - Are we really confused...

With whatever happened to me or my friends over past few days, I am forced to think that we are a generation of confused lot. If you think that calling the whole generation confused is a bit too much, believe me there are more like me out there than you can imagine. 


  No one seems to know what he or she wants. What everyone knows is that he wants something else. No idea what that is, but still; something else. Something big. And this includes me too. I don't say it is wrong to move on to or dream about bigger things; but the problem here is we don't know what we want to move on to. Is it big money, or is it better position, or is it better personal life or is it better spiritual life. We want big money but we also think that money is not required for satisfied being. We think that only we are responsible for what we get, yet we have other reasons for anything wrong happened to us. We believe that we have control over our destiny and we can change it but still want to be spiritually liberated and close to God. We want to be close to someone forever and still think that marriage is non-essential. We want everything and yet yearn to be so disconnected and free. We have this craving of being approachable to everyone at all times and still crack at the availability of connecting technology. 


I guess you get my point. All that I say applies to me as well and I go through all these things as well. What do you say??? I will be waiting......

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Temperament

I was talking to someone today about his temperament and how it, seemingly, has changed over the past.
I asked him if it is his changed temper or has he just being to the point like I am. And at that very moment I realized that my way, of being to the point, must be perceived by some to be rude or at least in anger.
 
In this medium of online written communication, like FB, Orkut or EMails, how are we supposed to determine what the other one is trying to say, contextually. I mean, the words may be the same but how you say it make THE DIFFERENCE. For an example, telling someone to Shut-up may be taken as rude whereas it could have been written pretty amicably. How on earth can you decipher the tone of a written sentence? In a language where you can't decide what a word, like run, means unless read in full context, how are we supposed to capture the emotions of short comments. My request, please don't write short sentences or you risk being misunderstood.