My generation

My generation. Superficial, smart yet lazy, technologically advanced. We barely talk to one another, at least in person. When's the last time you called your best friend's home phone to see what he/she was doing? When's the last time I had a home-cooked meal on Sunday night? When's the last time I didn't check to see where my girlfriend was on AIM but instead went and looked for her? My generation has advanced in a field of superb efficiency. Nothing is hard anymore. Cars practically drive themselves. You can find anything you want just by knowing what a letter looks like and where it is on a keyboard. I can track how long and how far I jog through my music player. I don't necessarily hate this, though. People may put our efficiency and technology down, and may want us to use more concrete means of transportation and communication (to become a better person), but I think they're jealous. Now, life can be what you make of it, not what it forces you to be. They can criticize our generation if they wish, but they are crazy to criticize that. And even if they wanted to stop it, even if they wanted to bring it back to the old days where people walked to places or talked to each other in person, they couldn't. Our world has become so accustomed to this way of life that people, companies, relationships, you name it, would be in chaos. The computer did that. The cellphone did that. We did that. And there's no looking back. -Bobby McCarthy