“Time has changed! Dad” (generation gap)
Time and tide waits for none. We know it but as time go by, the environment, the people, and the customs changes too. We spend the first half of our life trying to understand the older generation and the second half to understand the younger generation. Every age has its own way of looking at things and it is these changes in perceptions that create the generation gap there has always been an opposition, implicit or explicit, between the old and the young.
Making Way for New Ideas
The old people, having seen much of the life, consider their experiences and ideas infallible and tend to dictate the young according to their own ideas and notions. They forget that the world is a whole generation older than what it was in their younger age. Failing to adjust themselves to the rapidly changing world, they find it difficult to accept anything that does not conform to their perceptions. Every generation must be free to act for itself. The dreams, the ideologies, values, aspirations of the young and the old will always be different. The old generation will always stand for traditional values, social norms, and moral codes or conducts which the young generation cannot readily accept. They make their own analysis of good or bad, right or wrong, and clamor for changes in the whole socio-economic set-up. They are against any thing that suppresses their individuality. They struggle to mold their lives and actions according to their own perceptions, while the old generation discards and denounces them for being rash, thoughtless, and irrational. The conflicting ideologies of the two generations thus cause frustration and tension among the youth and fury and anxiety among the old. The generation gap thus continues to grow.
In keeping with the law of nature, the old must yield place to the new and allow them to build a world of their dreams in their own way as it is their life and methods of doing work and living too has changed. We must make our elders understand that the time has changed so we must change too. As we know that we cannot stop the change happening around us but we can change us according to the environment or as the generation wants. Change is necessary as change will bring development and development means betterment of the society as well as the nation. As we change physically with time, we must change mentally too with the time. If at all it is not possible, then we must learn to adjust as neither we can avoid the old nor the young generation as to a certain point we are equally depended on each other.
Adjustment: a mingling of the Old and New
In a family, we need to stay together so we must adjust with each other, as there are different kinds of person with different mentality and from different generation as parents may be from the old generation and the children may be from the new or the young generation. Hence, we can conclude that both the generation is equally important to the persons to which they belong, so we must adjust to live happily.
