We tend to use “generation gap” at all times, or perhaps, most of it; and very often, we refer to two generations instead of individuals. Whenever we say something is cool and the elders think it’s not, it would be due to the generation gap; whenever we want to travel around the world, to know things better and object by the elders, it would still be the fault of generation gap; whenever we couldn’t communicate between one another, we would somehow put the blame on the generation gap. However, never once it happens when it comes to friends instead of the elder generations. When we think a blouse is cute and the friend thinks it’s ugly, it is because of us having a different taste in dressing ourselves up; when we say overseas are always better than our homeland and the friend thinks the other way round, we would think that he’s just being patriotic; when we couldn’t reach a friend’s mind, we often tell ourselves that everyone needs some time for his own and it is not necessary to know every single little details if he himself does not want to share. Have we ever thought of the gap actually exist in between the individuals and not only the generations? Age is not the main root to the fact that some of us cannot interact with the elders, but the thoughts and mindset. We hardly open up toward the others, with different lifestyle, different perspectives, especially when it comes to the older generation ones. Surprisingly, we bear with our friends better than with the family members, sometimes; with the gap in between.
