Generation Y

[Hard Ball Get]

I have never said wisdom isn't earned over time. I said that time itself isn't the only experience you need to call yourself wiser than those who come after you.

Everyone possesses some sort of wisdom from the beginning, that's common sense. But who is to say this wisdom is valid, or proceeds all others? - it's relative because not everyone, over time, specialises in every single situation which may arise on this world, whether it be in the future or the past.

What I mean by using time wisely, is that you need to observe time as it goes on. Just because you happen to be 45 years old, does that mean you have experienced the lifestyle of a soldier?... studied Sociology, or Psychology for that matter?... lived in a troubled home? - been involved in a car accident?

Maturity, ethics of life, manners, ect; are all a given when it comes to age, but that does not mean you are more experienced in every single matter at present or the past.

It isn't that hard to fathom, and you don't need to play games in doing so.

If you are still confused, then maybe this conversation isn't for you.

I don't recall saying that. I think you just assumed I did. Or perhaps made a generalisation...

The fact of the matter is through age you are not more experienced in every single matter however it stands to reason that you have had more life experiences and therefor are more experienced in more areas of life.

I think there is a great deal you appreciate and understand once you get a little older. I am 25 so depending on where you draw your generational lines I can be construed as Gen Y.

Through the passing of time I have experienced more and more. Schooling, Post secondary education, graduation, car accidents, relationships, break ups, deaths, entering the work force, beginning full time employment, moving and many more. I am very much aware that as time continues to progress I will develop more understandings of the world around me. Things like building a house and marriage, perhaps getting the sack or changing career... who knows.

With time comes more experiences and as a result greater knowledge of how to deal with and react to certain situations. That could be referred to as wisdom.

I have never met a person over the age of 30 who does not look back on their teens and early 20s and say something along the lines of "If I knew back then what I know now" or "I thought I knew it all back then but what I know now does not even compare"...

I myself look back at my life as a 16-20 year old and think about how ignorant I was to so much of what life brings.

 

[Call Me Cake]

The fact of the matter is through age you are not more experienced in every single matter however it stands to reason that you have had more life experiences and therefor are more experienced in more areas of life.

Fair enough, but this doesn't apply to everyone & everything. So it's all relative.

I think there is a great deal you appreciate and understand once you get a little older. I am 25 so depending on where you draw your generational lines I can be construed as Gen Y.

I'm 23, I don't need to "get a little older". I've had my education on this topic, I am just as inclined to give my opinion as any 45 year old would. But just because he is a 45 year old & has lived longer than me, does not nessesarily make him automatically more experienced in the field of generations & it's impacts.

Through the passing of time I have experienced more and more. Schooling, Post secondary education, graduation, car accidents, relationships, break ups, deaths, entering the work force, beginning full time employment, moving and many more. I am very much aware that as time continues to progress I will develop more understandings of the world around me. Things like building a house and marriage, perhaps getting the sack or changing career... who knows.

Who knows, exactly. This stuff that you've gone through is relative. Just because you happened to have experienced this stuff in the period of time you refer to, doesn't mean a younger person may not have engaged in the same experiences, or studied a specific topic which may have arised between the two.

With time comes more experiences and as a result greater knowledge of how to deal with and react to certain situations. That could be referred to as wisdom.

True, but who is to say the people who have endured this time lapse, have learned from their mistakes, or have engaged in these experiences you speak of?

People have to understand that, age is a process in the brain psychologically as it is physically. So, maturity and the like are a given. What the person uses this maturity, ethics of life, ect; for is not. One person may have travelled the world, but the other may not. It is all relative.

I have never met a person over the age of 30 who does not look back on their teens and early 20s and say something along the lines of "If I knew back then what I know now" or "I thought I knew it all back then but what I know now does not even compare"...

Regrets aren't exclusive to people of a certain age. It's a human trait we all possess, and of course time is what causes this. But whether or not we look back on time/actions & learn from it is relative from person to person.

I myself look back at my life as a 16-20 year old and think about how ignorant I was to so much of what life brings.

You are looking back on experiences you have engaged in. But it doesn't mean you aren't able to learn from history which has been documented prior to your existance & make sure you don't emulate these mistakes in your future.

When it comes to the mature sense of wisdom, fair enough. But when it comes to experience, it doesn't mean you have covered all knowledge available at the time.

 

[Smell The Glove]

As someone who is the same age as this w***er, I would just like to sincerely apologise for Call Me Cake. I would say he is not representative of our generation, but sadly, he is.

Again, my apologies.

 

[cfc4life]

A positive of gen y is that im gen y

a negative is call me cake

 

[Call Me Cake]

As someone who is the same age as this w***er, I would just like to sincerely apologise for Call Me Cake. I would say he is not representative of our generation, but sadly, he is.

Again, my apologies.

Here come the Carlton trolls to which I've had confrontations with in the past.

Give it all you've got guys.

STG, have you even contributed to this thread (if any thread at that) apart from calling people idiots?

 

[Eagle87]

As someone who is the same age as this w***er, I would just like to sincerely apologise for Call Me Cake. I would say he is not representative of our generation, but sadly, he is.

Again, my apologies.

A positive of gen y is that im gen y

a negative is call me cake

Its clear that wisdom isnt merely confined to "older" folk. Obviously, you are both wise .... beyond your years .....

I had hoped that call me cake was an amalgam, some sort of deliberate pisstake. Taking all the stereotypical "flaws" of the young and Gen Y, rolling them into one and partaking in the longest troll of all time.

I fear though that I am wrong. That call me cake is in fact real. And gets to vote.

 

[Rosstickle]

Let me explain...

I am youth. I am a part of it today. These experiences are yet to happen, I am practically living the Gen-Y lifestyle as it happens.

Whereas Youth from the BB Generation & the X-Generation have all been well documented. I am able to study these generations in Sociology, look them up & compare them to my situation. Sure, I may take a Gen-X'ers opinion on it too, but I wouldn't hold it to extreme regard.

I am able to use the technology that I have today to research the transition of the basic standards of life throughout each generation in the past & compare it to the present. Gen-Y'ers are currently experiencing these standards of life, as it's happening (it hasn't ended) & they are pretty much in a good position to judge the differences that may arise.

To say that Gen-X'ers understand what it feels like to be Youth & face the countering problems & difficulties in the current, ongoing Y generation, is ludicrous when you follow it up with the notion that Youth today are unable to research history.

So essentially Gen-Y has lived their own youth but only read about/heard about the youth of the BB/Gen-x.

And they are more knowlegable than the Gen-Xers/Baby Boomers who have both experienced their own youth and actually witnessed the youth of Gen-Y, not just read about it?

 

[J-Train]

No, did you not read the posts correctly? - I suggest you do.

The generalisations & assumptions I was replying to were invalid, which is why I used the same approach to expose this.

Think Hard Ball, think.

However my point in youth being "experimental & expressive no matter the generation" still stands, which was something J-Train & Vealesy chose to ignore. Hence the images.

Just as you have failed to acknowledge the huge leg up society has given your generation in the fields of employment, health care, education and social services, and the complete lack of appreciation you have for that advantage.

I have read this thread from start to finish and your attitude stinks. You come across as exactly the type of pain in the arse know-it-all teenager that has all the negative qualities other generations recognise and despise in today's youth.

You've basically validated every stereotype associated with Gen Y - selfish, uninformed, arrogant, demanding, disrespectful. The list goes on.

You've embarrassed yourself thoroughly. Give it a rest.

 

[vealesy]

I didn't choose to ignore it, Im a 25 year old who never wants to get old like all these self righteous knobs.

I was just having a dig coz I think people who spend hours on their hair are fagg0ts, no matter what age they are.

How anyone can group people over a 15 year age gap as the same generation is a complete idiot to begin with. Just because TV has labelled someone as GENX or GENY doesn't mean jack shit.

This thread has just shown what hypocritical tools we all are, buy labelling other people with the same traits they themselves are displaying!

Its a bit rich for an older generation to be bagging a younger one isnt it? After all, the older ones raised us!!

 

[The Cranium]

I didn't choose to ignore it, Im a 25 year old who never wants to get old like all these self righteous knobs.

I was just having a dig coz I think people who spend hours on their hair are fagg0ts, no matter what age they are.

How anyone can group people over a 15 year age gap as the same generation is a complete idiot to begin with. Just because TV has labelled someone as GENX or GENY doesn't mean jack shit.

This thread has just shown what hypocritical tools we all are, buy labelling other people with the same traits they themselves are displaying!

Its a bit rich for an older generation to be bagging a younger one isnt it? After all, the older ones raised us!!

I'm not really a big one for naming generations, but what you allude to is attributable to the dumbing down in discipline in the home, schools and life in general. Kids now have rights, which in turn means generically authoritative figures do not receive due respect.

This is highlighted as per this link...

http://www.theage.com.au/national/t...-gatecrashes-17th-birthday-20090720-dq52.html

Something I have never understood with youth, that you have an expectation that you should / would gain entry.

 

[Freo_Premiers_09]

generation y


more like generation pie

 

[Lileasy]

generation y


more like generation pie

ZOMG.....you failed.

 

[Team Mo']

ZOMG.....you failed.

zomg you just won the Gen Y prize... I think you're the President as of now.

 

[tonk]

I would say we have a little more knowledge about the world when it comes to...

Marijuana.
War.
Technology.
Race.
Womens rights, ect;

If you look back, most youth from the 50's to the 80's were so, stupid? - most of the issues today deprive from generations before Gen Y, and we're gonna have to end up fixing them, no doubt.

Wars in the 90's were horrific, and who started them? - people with the mentality pre-Gen Y.

I would think by the time Gen Y escapes the "youth" stage, we will be a lot more mature & knowledgable when it comes to issues facing the world today.

That's just my 2 cents.

oh dear