Parents if you think your kid will be spoilt after reading my article don’t worry, he must be enjoying Sunny and Mia while you are out of the house). Toddlers in their Kindergarten who should be watching Chota Bheem and co, are watching Mirzapur and Game of Thrones along with their parents who are too lazy to stop the TV or watch educational cartoons like Little Ganesha until their kid falls asleep after which one can watch any content ranging from Bombay Love to Naughty America (not sorry for mentioning ‘adult sites’ as this is a rant. Millennials will understand when I say one only needs to take a glance at their nephews and nieces who even before joining pre-school are watching videos on YouTube. Why punish our ancestors by letting them in this world? They lived happy lives in Satya, Treta and Dwapar Yugas (in the case of Treta and Dwapar when Ramayana and Mahabharata take place respectively, one can say comparatively better than our current Kali Yuga).Īnd suppose, Gen Z (x) (x denotes the number of generations) is brought to this world, they will all grow up to be cyborgs− mini versions of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator. Why punish these poor souls? Then the family Shastriji (Family Hindu priest) will say, ‘By not bringing children you are committing the crime of not allowing your pitras (the souls of ancestors) to take re-birth through you’. That too in this rising prices, declining climate, pandemic driven and politically unstable world. Good news for society and bad news for millennial parents. Let’s assume you meet the love of your life (on Tinder, ) or ‘arranged’ (by society) then next you have to deal with the question of the compatibility of jobs, job timings and most importantly, which city will host the newlywed couple for the odd number of years? Will the rent houses and apartments in the city be liberal or impose hostel-kind rules like a deadline of 10 pm, no party, no chicken, no pet, no Netflix? These are nothing when compared to the most horrific and diabolical question of all Khush khabri kab doge? (When will we get the good news?). The first challenge is marriage and that too in the age of speed dating, blind dating and what else blasphemous stuff? Then add the vast array of unusual identities of asexual and pentasexual and whatnot. I say ‘With 21st-century Millennial Adulthood Comes Impossible Responsibility’. Spiderman said, ‘With Great Power Comes Great Possibility’. The pressure of the time that you are no longer a carefree teenager but an adult. Rant as you see your classmates from school tying the knot and feel the pressure. Rant at the prospects of the future looking back at you with sarcastic and gleeful laughter. Because I find fewer reasons to celebrate the stage of my life and the current neoliberal free market-led world and more reasons to rant. ![]() This is not going to be any philosophical or post-modernist or any fancy sociological/ academic examination of the current era. ![]() You might be wondering what Cheers? Cheers, for what? Frustration? LOL. Cheers to us for having arrived at this point in a life filled with the frustration of increasing carbon footprint and the uncertainty of life. Firstly, greetings to all frustrated 21st-century millennials and those Gen Z who are contemplating the next steps of life, but deterred by the prospects of a world wracked by n-COVID, climate change and not to say the mindless violence in the name of nationalism, religion, race, caste and gender.
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