THEN vs NOW

At a simple google search "Generations" "I have noticed that we are divided into" letters "we
find results like: generation x -" the lost generation " exposed to divorces and kindergartens
with a prolonged schedule, children who did not have too healthy relationships with their
parents”; generation y: ”They are more united as a generation and more willing to make their
voice heard.”; generation z : ”We still do not know much about this generation, but more
about the environment in which they grow: very diverse!”

About us it's said that they do not know many things, about our parents it's said that they are
hard spoken, and about our grandparents that they had toxic relationships. Is that so?!

The fact is that people have labels for anything, for everyone around, even for God if is
necessary, but I think labels are for clothes not for people.

About us, those about whom much is not known yet it is also said that we are the generation
that will change the world, in good . As the representative of the z generation I would say: ”
How can we change something if we are surrounded by corruption, ignorant, preconceived
ideas, the premise that what you have to do falls between good and bad and that you will
never be exceptional, different, because that is not done "?!

In my case, I can say I had degrading relationships, I spoke when it was the case and the
desire to change the world persists and develops from day to day, even if I can not change
everything at once: , start with a human, a tree, with a paper thrown in the street with a
flemish puppy, with the desire to do well, because that's the secret, we try to do everything
from passion and even if we do not always succeed, we never give up.

I remember with sadness what my grandmother was telling me, the story of a 35-40 year old
woman who though living in a world that did not allow her to say what she thinks, to be what
she was, and dress as she feels, this woman has become ”Lucretia” the crazy woman who
knew too much, she dressed in trousers although it was considered shameful and she has also
become a stereotype, a woman labeled wrong, a "crazy" of the past.
Because then like now we live in an air bubble or better said, we are surrounded by the
"Berlin walls", and whatever we do, we hit our heads, we break our legs, but no one has
managed to get out not even move a brick.

My parents, or better said, my mother has gone through this she had to dress only in her skirt
all over her high school, which her dad demanded. I am a pants lover and in a conversation I
had with my grandmother I told her laughing that I am a "Lucretie" of our time; think how I
want it, I'm just doing what I feel, and love as I like it.

I do not want to be hypocritical and say we are perfect, on the contrary we are imperfect, I'm
not ashamed to say that the generation z has completely gone mad: drugs, sex, illegal,
alcohol, illiterate. Or better say, orphans, maltreated children, poverty and deprivation?!

Over the years I met beautiful people with not very good destinies, I had a colleague at the
general school, Alex was his name , his intelligence was impressive, from the 2nd to the 5th
grade his school results were fantastic, he was the kind of perfect boy you were afraid to talk
about in order not to feel stupid, he knew things I had no idea, until one day in the 5th grade
about the end of the year when his behavior suddenly changed, became negligent in terms of
appearance and behavior. We did not know what was going on until one day I found out with
my parents that his mother left home, then his father started drinking and his grandmother
was horrible with him.

Who is Alex today? I do not know how to give a concrete answer, I know that high school
has hardly entered, has repeated the 11th grade and has not reached the 12th grade, and did
not take the baccalaureate exam. A few months ago I happened to meet him, he looked tidy
and seemed to go to work. I'm not saying that it was bad, but I think sadly that the x and y
generations in this case have made the generation z not to evolve, just by the simple fact that
today, Alex is not the exceptional man that could have been.

So all these vices, all the "evils" or how my grandmother says "That's why the dust has been
chosen from this world" (with reference to my generation), they are effective, but nobody
talks about the causes.

Today, abortion, sexual orientation, adultery are topics that are even discussed by public
opinion through mass media, but then the generation did not tolerate it, it was a shame to
them simply because they talked about it, but women aborted no one knew, there were gays,
lesbians and even trans even during the x generation, and adultery, say "the husband went to
the neighbor after the sugar" and nothing else ...

The difference between US and THEY is that then everything was kept under the key and
now they are all put into a magical box that you just have to press on, because everything is
"free".

So YES! My generation is head-on, we are crazy, we do not care what the others say, I can
say our generation "gave the skirt to the pants" and we try to be ourselves no matter what
wall we hit.

During my parents' voting was a real blessing, then you had someone to vote with or at least
someone to believe in, at least one of them inspired trust, today we have to choose between:
living in a group, watching innocent people die through prisons because they did not take the
bribe, others who stole but not enough, and others who turn people against people.

So differences exist: clothing, thinking and acting, but seeing things in perspective can state
that the z-generation is not an unknown, only misunderstood, as we depend on x and so and
future generations will depend on z. On behalf of my generation, I recognize and accept our
mistakes and apologize, I promise we will do extraordinary things, and we will play our part
about what we call ”HOME", just let us be ourselves...