Is it me or do our generation


It's not just you. We are in a time when everything is fast. If things aren't going there way this generation give up. They have no drive, no desires, and no ethics. They want to be grown but don't want to do what grown people have to do.
 



i think so. we live in a microwave age, the day of instant gratification. if it aint happening ASAP, folks want to leave it alone and move to a different option.
 
Oh, I guess I was thinking another level. 30ish and above...we know what we want and when we want it!!! I just ain't got that kind of time to waste anymore. :smash:
 
Yes. Some of us are not like the folks of old! ...They ENDURED!

"The race is not given to the SWIFT nor the strong, but to HE who ENDURES to the end..."
 
Yep we really are impatient. Just like Xhale says, its an age of instant gratification. I remember the other day I was mad because I had to stick something back in the microwave for a minute and then I laughed at myself because I remember when we didn't have a microwave. We warmed everything up in the oven. What used to take 20 min takes 2 min now and I got mad because I had to wait an extra 30 seconds. When we start a job we wanna move straight to the top and forget that people before us paid their dues. With relationships we say "oh well" there's always someone else.
 
Very impatient. I listen the early 20something crowd and they want everything NOW. Big car, big house, big money, NOW! I try and tell them the old folks they see with all the big things took their time to get there. Nothing wrong with having goals and big dreams, but you must take your time to work your plan to make that dream come true.
 
cat daddy said:
Very impatient. I listen the early 20something crowd and they want everything NOW. Big car, big house, big money, NOW! I try and tell them the old folks they see with all the big things took their time to get there. Nothing wrong with having goals and big dreams, but you must take your time to work your plan to make that dream come true.
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CD, when my little sister graduated from high school, she wanted to go to FAMU, got accepted, and everything, and when my dad didn't buy her a car fast enough, she refused to go, and her reasoning was because she didn't have a car. I'm like, when did you need a car to go to college?

I told my dad, "man you're getting soft in your old age, because that crap wasn't flying with us when we were kids." I had to tell my sister she was blessed that she was even getting a car, (granted she's much younger than my siblings, and myself, and my parents didn't have as big a financial burden with her, because we were all grown, and, gone), but I told tell her, we were lucky just to use the car, or the truck, nevermind having one of them buy us one.

NICE
 
That's the crowd I'm talking about Nice. I have a co-worker whose daughter is in school over in Houston and this girl tried to pull the same stunt. She was not going if she didn't have a car. I told her mother, that lil' heffa better be happy she didn't grow up with me. NONE of my crew went to school with a car. We were just happy to get the hand me down car when we made it to our sophmore or junior years in college.
 
cat daddy said:
NONE of my crew went to school with a car. We were just happy to get the hand me down car when we made it to our sophmore or junior years in college.
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Same with me.
I didn't get a car until my junior or senior year in college, and I got it on my own with absolutely no help from my parents.
 



I have patients. It's the "shorties" who have the problem. When dealing with people in general, I don't like folks to waste my time because they are board. :smh:
 
Most schools don't even allow you to have cars your freshman yr right? My brother is only 4 yrs younger than me and there's a big difference between the way we view things. I started working in high school, caught the bus to work and didn't get my 1st car until my sophomore year in college. Even then I paid the note and the insurance. My brother used not having a car as an excuse to not work and wanted my mom to buy one for him. My little cousins coming up now pouted because they don't have a cell phone and I'm looking at them wondering why they need one if they aren't doing anything. It's all gimmie gimmie gimmie now.
 
Yes, folks are impatient as L. Gimme me now, rat now, or you are incompetent/don't love me/ain't doing your job/need to get your old ass out of the way. Sheesh. I am the queen of delayed gratification...so, I make them wait--son, lover, coworkers, students, whatever. :)
 
Shamocha said:
Most schools don't even allow you to have cars your freshman yr right? My brother is only 4 yrs younger than me and there's a big difference between the way we view things. I started working in high school, caught the bus to work and didn't get my 1st car until my sophomore year in college. Even then I paid the note and the insurance. My brother used not having a car as an excuse to not work and wanted my mom to buy one for him. My little cousins coming up now pouted because they don't have a cell phone and I'm looking at them wondering why they need one if they aren't doing anything. It's all gimmie gimmie gimmie now.
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Same with me. My dad told me if I wanted a car, I had to go out, and get a job, and buy my own car.

CD, bruh I feel ya, when I did get a car, it was a 79 Monte Carlo, and that was in 1990.LOL

NICE
 
well i did get a car when i turned 16, however it did not go to school with me my freshman year until second semester. my mommy was a believer of results. my performance in high school got me the car, and she told me my results starting college would have to prove i was deserving of it going with me. AND then when i transferred as a sophmore, she wouldn't let me take it that first semester either. i'm like, dang mommy i aint a freshman no more, she said, "you will be at A&M". i was like well damn, my mommy just called me a crab! :lol:

now my older brother, had to purchase his own car.
 
XHALE9802 said:
i think so. we live in a microwave age, the day of instant gratification. if it aint happening ASAP, folks want to leave it alone and move to a different option.
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Right...I saw that when I was in grad school in 05. Instant hook up...right now...don't want to wait on a thing.
 
Shamocha said:
It's all gimmie gimmie gimmie now.
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That's why I want my boys(ages 3 & 2) to learn NOW that if they wants the "xcras" they'd betta EARN that money cause I ain't just gonna GIVE it to 'em. :no: If they expect that their feelings will DEFINITELY be hurt.
 
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