Between 25 and 30 and still you didn’t get your degree? Between 25 and 30 and you are still single? Welcome!!…mind you, you are member of my generation, which I could call it in many ways…such as…the Lost Generation, but it was already used…the X Generation…too kitschy.
I think we are part of a quite characteristic generation. First, we are, lets say, the “children of democracy”-in the case that democracy is something that really exists- we are the children of fathers and mothers who really had to fight for what the wanted; they grew up seeing and suffering a dictatorship, something they did not choose, something that was imposed. They fought against that. That, and other factors, made them grow with ideals, with real ideals, they wanted to change things. We, the children, we were born and grew up in a place where everything was already made. We grew up with the “you have to prepare yourself for the future”, and suddenly the future was here. I personally grew up with most of my mom’s ideals, in the sense that, I’ve always believed that everything was possible, that a better world is possible, I grew up believing in justice, love, and honesty. You would say “ok. Your mom sounds like a retired hippie” and yes, she is in a way. My friends’ parents if not retired hippies, they belong to a generation which believed in certain things and passed them to their children, that means, to us. The problem arrives when those ideals clash with our present situation, a world that is far away from those things our fathers wanted to achieve, a world which, in many cases is in decay, you like it or not. The delayed part comes when we compare ourselves with our parents. At their 25 or 30 years old, they had a degree or were already married, or were already divorced. We are not. Most of the people of my own age are in that situation…we joke about it, we make fun of it, in order to make that little frustration a little bit lighter; but in our young hearts, we know that we had have troubles doing things “on-time”. And although we still want to get our degrees, we still want to marry and have children; we feel that we are or that we were delayed. Despite all this, we still have the strenght to keep on going.
jesica suparo
