There is a long history of generation gaps. We tend to forget that young people are observing us, but not just to mimic us. To learn from us in many different ways. They’ll take our principles and ideas and push them further, they’ll branch out in new directions when new directions become available, they try to succeed in places where we failed.
This can all be discomfiting when taken together, but it’s exactly what most parents generally want, deep down–for them to have a better life than we did. We can’t really help it if the nuts and bolts of that are uncomfortable and, if we’re being honest, completely terrifying sometimes. In the end though, it comes down to faith. If you raised them right … you might just have to trust them. Not to be perfect and always do the right thing, but to grow, learn from their own mistakes just like we did, and ultimately carve their own path.
We can’t hold them back, trying will only result in strife. This is a key part of how we evolve as social organisms, it’s part of what makes us so adaptable to all the different environments and circumstances of this world. If they always just came out as carbon copies, we wouldn’t be able to accomplish all the stuff we do, as entire civilizations.
We’re gonna need a free and intact world to hand down to them, though, if they’re going to have any kind of real shot at success.
To bring this back to Jodie, if it were an older co-star, would she react the same? Ageism cuts both ways, and when I hear of an actor not showing up on set on time, my first instinct is “douchebag celebrity”, not “kids these days”.
To young people, we do envy you. Time can be an implacable foe, and we’re much closer to face-to-face with it. We do remember what it felt like, and we miss certain parts of it. The same part of a person that wishes they could redo parts of their life, when it looks at your decisions, can become hyper-judgemental. Try to avoid that one, when you get around to being older yourselves. It’s natural, but not unavoidable or anything. It doesn’t have many benefits either, being hyper-judgemental seldom does, outside of a courtroom anyway.
There is a long history of generation gaps. We tend to forget that young people are observing us, but not just to mimic us. To learn from us in many different ways. They’ll take our principles and ideas and push them further, they’ll branch out in new directions when new directions become available, they try to succeed in places where we failed.
This can all be discomfiting when taken together, but it’s exactly what most parents generally want, deep down–for them to have a better life than we did. We can’t really help it if the nuts and bolts of that are uncomfortable and, if we’re being honest, completely terrifying sometimes. In the end though, it comes down to faith. If you raised them right … you might just have to trust them. Not to be perfect and always do the right thing, but to grow, learn from their own mistakes just like we did, and ultimately carve their own path.
We can’t hold them back, trying will only result in strife. This is a key part of how we evolve as social organisms, it’s part of what makes us so adaptable to all the different environments and circumstances of this world. If they always just came out as carbon copies, we wouldn’t be able to accomplish all the stuff we do, as entire civilizations.
We’re gonna need a free and intact world to hand down to them, though, if they’re going to have any kind of real shot at success.
To bring this back to Jodie, if it were an older co-star, would she react the same? Ageism cuts both ways, and when I hear of an actor not showing up on set on time, my first instinct is “douchebag celebrity”, not “kids these days”.
To young people, we do envy you. Time can be an implacable foe, and we’re much closer to face-to-face with it. We do remember what it felt like, and we miss certain parts of it. The same part of a person that wishes they could redo parts of their life, when it looks at your decisions, can become hyper-judgemental. Try to avoid that one, when you get around to being older yourselves. It’s natural, but not unavoidable or anything. It doesn’t have many benefits either, being hyper-judgemental seldom does, outside of a courtroom anyway.
This is a nice piece of writing, and a good message
Yeah, too bad it has litetally nothing to do with Jodie’s complaints…