The lost years

Clover and I went to see my friend Kryztof's band play last night in a small venue downtown. Clover, for those of you who don't know, is one of my dearest friends who I spend a lot of time with. You may hear about her often. Maybe I should ask her if that is ok. :-/ Anyway as we are listening to the band, who is fantastic, we were also people watching. People watching is one of our favorite past times. She made a comment something to the effect of "I hate Twentysomethings". I laughed being as I've said that exact same thing numerous times myself, and asked her why. The long and short of her explanation was something I've been complaining about quite a bit over the last few years. They are clueless.

There is something about the people between the ages of 20-25 right now that irritates me. They seem lost, confused, non focused, completely dependent on their parents, have no drive, and then are also arrogant on top of it all. Arrogant! How the hell can you be so lost and arrogant at the same time. However I can't decide if my issue with them is the fact that they all seem to have this obnoxious sense of entitlement and mooch off their parents or if my issue is that I'm getting to old to understand them. Maybe a mix of both? I don't want to be that person who says "those damn kids" but I find myself thinking it more and more often. Teenagers don't bother me. I get teenagers. They are hormone filled rebels who are just trying to figure out who they are. It is only when someone is out of high school and should be looking toward the working for their future and instead are looking at the world and ask for their future on a silver platter that I get irritated.

So as a culture, we look at these child-like adults and market our whole world around them. And yet these same people are sucking the life out of their parents and the rest of us by being sloths.

I've decided it should be mandatory for all people to do 2 years of manual labor prior to going to college. Then lets see how many decide that school is "just to hard".