My generation keeps talking about how similar our lives were when we were children: the cartoons we watched, the music that rocked etc...
We were alike.
Well, "we" are still very much alike. I can't promise about the whole youth but people within my sight keep bragging about how "unique" they believe themselves to be within the crowd based on the common grounds listed below.
So... who are we?
- We have a longing to turn to basics
We were born to get our swords and slash a few heads in massive wars, yet we sit all day in front of 15 inch screens typing with clean-cut nails. Our power is trapped, so we watch small demos of violent nature on Discovery, or big-budget action movies on Hollywood screens. We lead armies on pc's or dwarfs in FRP. Extreme sports are at the core of our distinctive CV's showing how wild we are. Oh, and, how much we would love to go to Africa and join some un-done tribe! How much we love the careless African music that appeals to our most basic instincts and drives our feet off the ground!
- We are or we have been blindly obsessed
with at least one person, maybe two, that we cannot seem to kick off our lives despite all these years. We are sure that no one ever loved this much in human history. Well, we can't call it love -maybe soulmates-, it's something more, something more sick, something more connected and definitely bloody.
- We believe that we are thinking out of the box
without even identifying which box it is that we are talking about. "The others" are trapped, we are not. Well, we seem to be for now but we'll surely find a way out because we have brilliant ideas that no one else has. Once we find the right moment, no one will be able to stop us.
- We are inborn backpackers
Hitchiking or motorcycles imply an adventurous soul. Travelling is our passion. When people start talking about their adventures abroad, we sure have something to add in, or some comment about any country. "You want to go there as well?? Let's go together!" "Yes!!! We definitely should!!!" is a conversation that we are tired of hearing over and over. If only we could find enough free time, we would do a lot more of road-trippin, the Easy Rider style... And this time we would go East instead of going West, which is more genuine, more down to earth, more saved from the boring rules of civilization. Frankly, the only place we truly loved within the boring civilization was Spain. We can't name the reasons why but, there, we had so much fun!
- We are restless and we want some rest
A soulmate would be soothing but it's hard to find nowadays.
- We LOVE food. We also love showing off our love for food
In case you don't know, the cuisine of our home-town is numero uno whatever that home-town is.
- We choose our passions according to the fashion
As a hobby, we tried getting into photography. We will start taking improvisation lessons soon, or a dance lesson. We tried volunteering in high school or the university, but we will do more of it, once we find the right time and the right philiantrophy project.
- We are into cinema
We watched Matrix and Fight Club more than once. We can't do without Hollywood but the magic is in the Requiem for a Dream, Clockwork Orange, Mullholland Drive and all alike.
- We are masters of empathy
We observe people's behaviours carefully and spend a remarkable amount of time and effort on psychological and sociological analyses. Human mind is controllable once you know how to, so we take results of brain & behaviour researches very seriously.
- Words are very unnecessary
SMS existed before icq info pages or msn/facebook status messages did, so we sent most meaningful lyrics to girls/guys we liked as messages so that they would have a sense of how deep we felt about them. Nowadays we send links from videos on YouTube. But this sometimes leads to confusions as the song-writer doesn't have our particular relationship in mind when writing the whole song: some parts of lyrics contradict with what we mean in general. Or sometimes we are not sure which parts are addressed to us. Still, we feel as if we are part of the strongest relationship ever.
- We have a generic playlist for each age
For example "Nothing else matters" is part of 15 and "Where the wild roses grow" mark the beginning of 30's. Radiohead and Coldplay are timeless, and yes, somehow we are all "weirdo"s. And no, we are not comfortable with publicly enjoying cheesy hiphop pieces.
- We go to music festivals
because that is part of who we are: "a festival hippie".
- We go to social events to meet virtual people offline
First time is never easy.
- We are damn connected
We don't mind a broken TV but we can get physically ill when we have no connection to the internet for more than a day. Mac's and iphone's are still considered to be cool signs of a marginal personality.
- We are social, in our own way...
We are all on Facebook and we all appreciate Google.
- Master's degree is no longer a nice-to-have
Everyone's getting one so should we.
- We were very positive about having a mental disorder
such as paranoia, manic depression or schzophrenia once. We only stick with paranoia now.
- We remember what they did last summer
We can't recall what we ate for lunch three days ago but don't forget people we know and our interactions with them. Some, we know every word by heart.
- We have been on diet once the least
- We all have a Converse
- And we love making lists like this one
