Reflections

Reflections
An honest reflection is never true. Honesty of ones feelings, views and opinions require a very personal and subjective edge. And this inevitably In the light of my growth as a person and student I feel like my views can either be very focused and personal or generalised to what I see emerging from the waters of my generation. And the latter I chose.
We come from a place where all our childhood pictures are in colour, where new iPhones are owned by our primary school attending siblings, where the future is hazy. Though uncertainty implies that we comprehend that there will be growth.   I, like most my peers, am tangled up in expectations of my future career, demands of the reality and the pressure of   the century. I dream big, since post-soviet union ideology meant open borders mean open minds. Expected to feel like I can be whatever I want, which is almost true. Except the fact, that with this privilege a person also needs a lot more from a career than a nice green lawn of prosperity and security. The fact is, a green lawn isn't quite exceptional or unique enough for those who allegedly have no limits. We can study abroad and we can travel the world, there are types of jobs that never existed 20 years ago. Yet we are drowning in the floods of information and technology; so much that knowing endless algorithms that are changing with each new update is not a choice but an urgency in order the remain using of devices we so lavishly depend on.   Not knowing how to look up a tram timetable from a HTC phone affect our day more than not being able to multiply 9 by 13 correctly. It is probably absurd or it might as well just appear so from the matured perspectives.
At the end of the day most of us are wandering and quite likely will for much longer than our parents ever had a chance to. We don’t get married in our twenties anymore; we take a year off instead. We don’t worry about our pay checks ten years from now, we ponder on whether or not we have feasted...