Invited by a friend, who like me is into early 30s, at a bar in afternoon where he had been taking drink all alone, I had reasons to brood on our age induced behavioral changes. Speaking less and taking broad views on issues around us, I thought we were not at all the “rocking youth” that we used to be when we were in our 20s.
We are now grown ups and the talks that used to thrill us in our yesteryears sound frivolous and boring ways to kill the abundant time that we had.
Soon, we were joined by a group of five, who were early into 20s or were they teenagers. Rocking band of new generation youth, must say, who give a damn to most of the things in life nowadays. A solitary girl among them ordered beer and rest settled for hard drinks, puffing cigarettes hard.
Though we in our 20s hardly ever talked with girls given the society that we grew in, it was amusing to hear these kids discussing body parts of their female friends with all the gusto with a girl in their group taking great joy at vivacious descriptions.
As they made most of the noise, we turned towards them many a time. We also looked into them with our perspectives. My friend quipped if this is the new generation what would be our kids when they grow up. Hypothesizing, as most of the “grown ups” do, we also wondered if these rocking band ever thought of being first be able to buy a drink by their earned money before stepping into a bar.
It’s a different matter that the liquor law in Delhi prohibits youth below the age of 25 being served liquor. The laws in Delhi are just for booting them!
Recently, I came across an Orkut group called “Need No Advice” with its punch line: “We are grown ups. And even if we aren't, we are better off without advice. And hey we dont give a f*** abt wat you think.. WE ARE THE KINGS OF OUR OWN WORLD..”
Frightening or bewildering!
Just wonder if anyone had ever lived a life without advice in one way or the other.
Are the 20s’ folks living a pseudo life with a world full of misplaced perception created around them by their parents for reasons best known to them? A friend some years ago was left gasping when his student gave the definition of a poor. “A poor is one who drives Maruti 800 car and lives in a DDA flat,” she had said.
I must say that I have no remorse at all being into early 30s and growing up when Indian socio-polity and economy were in tumult, thus educating our generation socially and intellectually.
