To the Generation Before Us that Calls Us Stupid

you invented the internet and the learning system and the computers and it was your dream and never ours. we comply and we're now called stupid for doing so.

you say we take life for granted, that we don't know what it's like to work hard. but you gave us this wikipedia world we never asked for.

i feel a little betrayed.

in middle school we were taught wood shop, metal shop, cooking and even sewing. but i barely made it through the end of that two year school before the teachers all scrapped the idea of manual creations and started expressing the importance of the computer.

by high school even the poorest of poor families had to have a computer at home and actual knowledge became secondary to the ability to "look it up online."

at no point did the kids of that time sit down in a group and vote for a world of digital capabilities. somewhere up in the adult world is where that decision went down. it was the generation before us that made it so our futures would be digital.

all we did is what we were told and that meant adapting to it.

but now those same fools call us stupid?

do you older folk know what it's like to go through a break up with the existence of facebook? to have horribly misread text message fights?

for birthdays our inbox is filled with facebook notices, reminding us that one hundred former classmates wanted to say an ingenuine "happy birthday!" because a little prompt reminded them it was the right day to do so. and we spend a good five to ten minutes trying to delete all those spammy wishes.

happy birthday, digital today.

the generation above us took away the days when we could all sit around and just make conversation and replaced them with iphone apps and twitter. and while it was they who ruined the possibility of those good times, it is us who are looked down upon.

believe me, there are a few of us who fight for life to stay human, but you've made it such a difficult battle.

i mean, do you know what it's like to have facebook remind you that you have severely fallen out of contact with one of your friends and suggest you write on her wall-- even though she died two years ago?

and you know what? i defriended her because of that. digital today has caused me to defriend a deceased person.

you made this world for us and now we have to live in it. and hey, it's not that fucking great. i'd rather sit in a library and thumb through an encyclopedia to get my information. i'd rather call a friend on a land line or visit them at their house.

i could carve blogs into the sides of trees, i don't know. i mean maybe without the ease of the internet i would've actually gone and tried to actually become a writer rather than sitting around half-writing, half-watching youtube videos of funny animals.

maybe that last part is my own fault, but that's not the point.

i'm just getting real sick of being referred to as the lazy generation when this lifestyle was sculpted by the generation before us-- this was their dream except it came true for us.