Generations Apart…World’s Apart

The question of generations is one that forces us to review our own paradigm. While I don't confess to have all the answers, I suggest that life is about the people and the relationships that are nurtured within it. If we hold onto the archaic notions of limiting constructs of what relationships based on the general notion of superficial ideas or what they should and shouldn’t be, the world becomes closed and narrow. The expanse of experience of life and life's joys are no longer available. We are bound by artificial boundaries defined by something other than what is important to our own lives: our personal relations and the happiness that can be nurtured through these encounters. Breaking through these norms of conservative values and generational ideas of what is right and wrong, appropriate or inappropriate are based on elements beyond the subtle but real notions of relationship building and, dare I say, love. 

I am an advocate of kindred spirits and soul-mates, rightly or wrongly. While this notion is not a new construct of personal relations, it does cause consternation amongst those that are unwilling or unable to extend beyond the boundaries of the generational morays that test the limits of our world. Life is about living and sharing with one another. It has nothing to do with the artificial limits and boundaries created by those that believe that the world should or shouldn't be founded on elements other than what appears to be the generational norms. Personal relationships are not based on age, religion, race or any other artificial, self-delusional created constructs: it is about sharing your life with people that you have a personal connection, soulful spirits, soul-mates, or kindred spirits. It has nothing to do, nor should it be devoted to, the notion of what some imposed—and it is imposed either consciously or unconsciously by conservative values of what is right or wrong or any other comparative value system—and socially conforming force of acceptance.

This acceptance is all about creating a world apart, a generation apart. Instead of bridging worlds, bridging generations, there is the mythical notion that these should be divided by some arbitrary standard of separation. Peer pressure, family pressure, and, dare I say, societal pressure reaffirm this notion of generational relationships that are a world apart.