The Lost Generation

As kids, we aspired to be rock stars, actors, millionaires, scientists etc.  But then life happened. We got screwed. Now we know, none of that is going to happen. We are going to live a normal, mundane life. We were raised on televisions. We were raised to believe that we are special somehow. Everyone is special. Doesn’t that make all of us the same?(that’s super generalization btw). You are dying. Minute by minute. Slowly, steadily but surely. You can pretend to be oblivious to your decay. But somewhere deep inside your carcass, you know its true.

You feel the need of justifying your importance. You feel the need of being liked. You feel the need of being popular. You feel the need to slow down your perpetual journey towards doom. Ours is a lost generation. There is nothing significant going on out there. There are no wars to fight. There is no depression to blame. You are alone and stranded. You do not even know who you are. You feel a profound emptiness living within you. It needs to be filled. You are alone and sadly it is true.

There are millions of young men going to war every day. They see their friends dying, crying for help. They return home, either physically or mentally wounded( or both). Their faith, which had earlier given them hope, is no longer valid. Everything is vague now. Similarly, you go to school, colleges or offices to do shit you don’t like.  You bust your ass for people you don’t give a fuck about. You come home, exhausted, to be greeted by a wife who is equally bored, children who no longer listen to you, parents who are going through a similar crisis. You say to yourself half-heartedly…It's going to be okay in the future. But it is never going to be OKAY and you know it's true.