Perceived Age Chasm
I think most of my friends remember what it was like during college and in the years immediately afterwards. We were wild, reckless, impulsive, and invincible.
Unfortunately, many of our contemporaries do not remember this phase in their lives. Some acquaintances I ran around with years ago now have the nerve to criticize the youth of today, although they themselves were some of the wildest and most irresponsible people I knew back in the day.
We’re not so much different. We’re just on opposite sides of the life-chasm that is our 20′s. Some of us are on the deep end, where the water of uncertainty is rough, and the winds of judgement and criticism sting our faces. Some of us, through perseverance, luck, and diligence have made it to the shallow end, where we occasionally struggle but at least we know who and what we are.
To those in the deep end: life won’t always be this chaotic and choices made won’t seem so final and mind-shattering.
To those in the shallow part: we have so much to learn from those less seasoned because they are us. We are not superior, stronger, smarter, or faster. We just started the race sooner.
And, you know what? All of us have good days and bad days. We could probably all stand to be more rested. On the best days, we’re luminous beings; on the worst, we question our value and deny our worth in this world.
Most of the time, though, we’re just scrappy, hard-working little monkeys who could have used a few more hours of sleep last night.
