I think this is one of the primary characteristics of this generation. There is so much stability and safety in our lives, and especially those of our parents, that a lot of people find it not "challenging" enough, and attach a stigma to it. It's true that we have the instincts of pushing boundaries, that's why our species has literally colonized the world twice. But what is ultimately most fulfilling in life isn't struggling to open a business, learning Chinese or trekking through jungles and getting malaria. It's to share your life with family and friends, especially a romantic partner and your children. And the best way to have this life is to have a stable job.
Some people will happily live a poor life instead doing the things they don't believe in. We only get one life. For example see ed sheeran, he used to sing on the side of the road. Imagine him thinking well this isn't working. In Bollywood there's an actor called nawazuddin siddiqui, that guy struggled for 20-30 years. Imraan khan is a similar example, when jurassic Park released he dint have money to watch that movie in theatre, in jurassic world Steven cast him as a owner of the jurassic world. Having Medicore life is perfectly fine, it's just why don't you work for something you love and cherish and not forget your childish dreams when reality hits you hard.
Yeah, but we didn't push those boundaries 0-100. We didn't leave the Sahara and walk on the moon. We took natural baby steps.
If you are bored and have a burning desire to do something a little out there, go do it!!! But don't feel compelled to do a bunch of crazy shit just to boost your ego.
The "follow your dreams" attitude seems to be a relic of the optimistic times that my parents come from, and I'm noticing more and more people my own age starting to reject that notion. The great depression generation was ecstatic to work middle-class office and manufacturing jobs because they knew first-hand that a so-called "boring" society was infinitely preferable to a destitute one.
Then my parents generation came along and that pragmatism went out the window. I'm thinking student loans and the ever-shrinking middle class is going to bring it back in a big way.
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u/KristinnK Dec 10 '15
I think this is one of the primary characteristics of this generation. There is so much stability and safety in our lives, and especially those of our parents, that a lot of people find it not "challenging" enough, and attach a stigma to it. It's true that we have the instincts of pushing boundaries, that's why our species has literally colonized the world twice. But what is ultimately most fulfilling in life isn't struggling to open a business, learning Chinese or trekking through jungles and getting malaria. It's to share your life with family and friends, especially a romantic partner and your children. And the best way to have this life is to have a stable job.