A Generation Set Aside

Often we hear of the extension gap that huge expanse between pargonnt and child. Perhaps it is an acquaintance gap. Young state and adults do not know each other. The softness to communicate often enters the picture. Some dates it is beca recitation neither knows what the other is interested in. They live under the same roof, simply they rarely see one another, especially after the teenage years sire along. The father goes polish tally to work before the children are awake. Mother may go back to bed after seeing the husband off to work or off to her own job.Teenagers get themselves up and off to indoctrinate without seeing either parent. Then after rail there is ball practice, band practice, or something else that consumes their time maybe a job that lasts until bedtime. Parents turn in things that tie them up in the evenings so the days come and go, and there is precious secondary time spent together. A meal together is even a rare occasion. All of these activities may be squaresome and proper, scarcely still the family suffers because there is so little time spent together.This causes more children to desex too many decisions on their own, and so often they pull up stakes confide important and crucial matters out of their thoughts and plans. This generation often gets labelled by the media and the overageder people in society as the modernsters who are tearing this country apart. The fact of the matter is that we are a product of our parents mistakes and re primary(prenominal) to be misunderstood. In the past several years we have seen much media attention focused on the generation that followed the boomers, popularly known as multiplication X. born(p) between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, this is the more or less complex of the generation, and by far the least understood in arouse of its current celebrity. This generation can best be described as the be amiss Generation. They are the generation that dealt with and are still dealin g with broken homes, drug addiction, AIDS, and bleak futures. A great deal of the young people in this Misunderstood Generation think very little about the future or present issues. This generation has lost sight of long terms goals and the idea that hard work pays off in the end.Instead, the people in this generation concern themselves only with what will bring immediate gladness and gratification. This part of society cares only about money and themselves, never thinking about the consequences of their actions. The Misunderstood Generation feels overwhelmed with the idea of a country with a multi- trillion dollar deficit, a high rate of poverty, and relatively no jobs. The Misunderstood Generation wants less out of life. This generation has evolved from the children that came home from school to an empty can because mom had to go back to work after the divorce.This is the generation that got its morals from watching T. V. after school and was parented by an older brother or sis ter. This is the generation that has unconventional ways and does not eer reason for them. They are uncertain and take up answers. They poke and prod to find what is lying ahead. They have loud voices but are seldom heard. This is the generation which has high expectations and are often disappointed. I, as well as all of the others born in my generation, were unleashed into an ever changing humans.The advances of today can easily be old news tomorrow. Along with this they, the people who have lived and controlled up until this day, have allowed the respect of the living to dwindle with the systematically increasing ease of everyday life. Transportation from one point to another can be the simplest of tasks. conversation with someone in any far off land can be reached with honorable the arrest of a button. And access to almost all the information the world has to offer is free for all with the use of the Internet.No other group of people have grown up with these things as bei ng such(prenominal)(prenominal) the standards and necessities of life and living that they are today. We have never had a war in our country. All of the wars that top executive have occurred while weve lived our young lives could only be seen through the glare of the t. v. The same thing that has all been a part of our life feeding us knowingly false images of what it means to be, but which seems to relate to us all. The same thing, however, does indeed show us the horrors of ever increasing crime and the life of these acts.Living has become an easier accomplishment with every new device, but with each new mark we leave on this world a new problem arises for us and all that follow. Today the marks are abundant and the affects are already in motion. This is what has made us a generation set past and why it appears that we are some wonder to the rest of society. Tomorrow, however, we will wonder the same. I believe movies such as Clerks, Reality Bites, and Boyz N the Hood accurate ly portray the Misunderstood Generation.All of these movies deal with literal life problems of this generation and have characters that seem extremely life exchangeable. For example, in the movie Reality Bites, the main female character gets out of college to discover that she cant find a job reservation much more than minimum wage. Another character in the movie gets fired regularly from contrasting minimum wage jobs, lives with different friends from week to week, and only worries about what will make him happy. These movies reflect the Misunderstood Generation in a way that all people can try to understand what it is like to grow up this day in age.This is a generation that has never known a world without televistion. In my own research I have found that all this and much more to be true. A male 18, says In ten years I see myself employed in my champaign of study and with my first base girlfriend. When I asked him when the turning point of his live was he said It sounds re ally remarkable but it was when I read Catcher In the Rye. I went through a psychotic and get down state of mind, after which I made a pact not to waste time and make the best out of every second of my existence.His was just an example that justifies the fact that there are many things that could influence the awaking of an individual. A male 17, wrote I dont think that we arent so complex, just that the real complexities of young people are finally being treated seriously and studied for the first time when he was asked what his feelings were towards the statement Generation X is considered to be the most complex but least understood generation Role models and heroes paly a crucial part in the decision-making of todays youth. numerous of us look to somebody whos popular, good-looking and successful to imitate, look up to and take advice from. Xers will sacrifice their lives for a worthy cause. Many are ready to do so now. But we need evangelists who will take the time to befriend us and listen to us and be genuine the whole time. I am not too aggravated with the statement Generation X is considered to be the most complex but least understood generation anymore. After all, everybody is different, society is different, and lets face it, I am only one of the thousands maybe even millions of gen exers out there.