We were having dinner table conversations. My mother in law told how much they struggled in their early days. The house has more people to feed than that earned. There were a steady stream of guests... some of whom had such high demands that they had to borrow money to meet their needs.
My parents had the same life too. Life was quite a struggle. Mostly monetarily. Struggle to feed. Struggle to have a decent place to stay. In a house like ours where both parents worked, we still had monetary problems. Single income families without inheritance were worse off. I know my dad's friends who still do not own a house. I was wondering "Thank god, I did not hit these issues. Such issues don't make you a better person. It's just painful".
But, don't I have struggles in life? Is my life all sweet and beautiful? I'm not talking about the health issues at all..General lifestyle issues.. social issues, job issues etc.
We all go through life in different ways. If we all faced the same problems, we'd pretty much be the same as our parents or maybe friends or relatives. Each so-called generation, which was every 100 yrs long back or every decade few decades ago.. but is soon becoming a few years now... brings with it hordes of changes... some of us adapt well to the change. Some don't. So the suffer. They resist change. Even I do. So, our lives are so different from our parents's. We're very different people than them. That's what makes us unique. They can learn something from us and we can learn something from them.
I'm just recollecting the changes I observed.
Our parents pretty much had stable jobs. I, for one have had so many jobs. I have lost jobs. Many of us today are very insecure about our jobs which leads to a lot of stress and makes us defensive and not-so-nice to colleagues. Competition tab bhi tha. Ab bhi hai. But the atmosphere created due to severe job insecurity is bad. So are deadlines. My parents never knew deadlines or spoke about it.
They always returned home pretty much at the same time. I have never come home at the same time. The hours kept getting longer, as I grew up the ladder.
Our parents had to cook to serve guests. Guests would come uninvited, without warning. People just dropped in and it was discourteous not to serve them food. Whatever you have, you make and serve. Also, guests would stay over for long periods. We always had relatives's kids studying at our place, staying for medical treatment or crashing after a relative's wedding. We - craft details. We inform our hosts the exact time of arrival. Our hosts can serve us restaurant food or take us out. You have home deliveries now. Everything is home delivered except parents and kids.
There was no rest from household work for women. Except wealthy families who hired help, all others depended on the women for good and clean homes. Today, we can hire as many helps as you can afford. You have the luxury of eating out. I was shocked, not surprised, to see hordes or Tam Brahms visiting Saravana bhavan on weekends. It's nice that the men folk want to relieve the women of kitchen duties atleast on weekends. But, it's bothersome that more and more people depend on outside food. It's not healthy. Soon, many traditional recipes will be lost. It is interesting to note the small scale food businesses. You get seedai, murukku, thattai, appams, payasam, adhirasam and other delicacies in small shops run by traditional women. It's interesting. Many women have started earning money over such businesses. Some own "powder shops" which home deliver home style chutney podis and masala powders. One guy home delivers good filter coffee each morning. So, these are good things. I personally feel good when someone is rewarded for their talent. Women who cook at home and do household work are really looked down upon or unpaid for or don't feel respected enough. To see this new respect and also the added income to their kitty banks, is a good thing.
The more easy we think life has become, the more complex it is. Our parents payed a few bills..electricity, gas, sometimes phone.
we pay so many bills.. electricity, gas, paper, internet, phone, driver, DTH, maid, car cleaner, nanny.
Journeys were meticulously planned months or year in advance. Every journey was looked forward to. Today, at the clap of hands, we book train or flight tickets. Weekends can lead us anywhere from forests to beaches. The world has shrunk due to flights and purchasing power.
Shopping - this was a term that never existed in my parents's world. The only shopping was grocery shopping and yearly once or twice clothes shopping. Groceries never included exotic items. Even biscuits and snacks were rare. Bread butter jam was a luxury. Clothes were for occasions. One for the birthday and one for diwali. There was much anticipation for those 2 new clothes. Now, every weekend or sale period we shop. We no longer wear new clothes for diwali or birthdays!
We have become less conscious about wasting. We buy too much and dispose too much. We also waste too much. Somehow the things we buy, lose their importance once we own them. Also in olden days durability of products was high. TV sets lasted 20 years. Furniture lasted for generations. Today everything is made to break soon. Else, we get bored and we change. We used to reuse most products from the jam bottles to surf covers. Today, with the way and quantity of usage, we have to throw the bottles away, else our house will have no space for us to live. Affluence - is the new buzzword on the decade. A newfound affluence. Money was always scarce. Things to buy - big budget ones were planned months in advance. Money was saved little by little to procure our object of desire. So many wishes remained unfulfilled. Today, I can pretty much buy whatever I want, within the same day, but the joy of saving and planning and owning is not there.
Weddings were different. More traditional. More a place to meet your kin. It was a 3 day affair. Many people pitched in. Food would be discussed for months after the wedding. The bride was never gorgeously dressed. Just a silk saree, jewels and flowers. No one cared for her feelings. Maybe the mother and aunts gave her tips on how to be a good homemaker and how to adjust with the in laws no matter what they said or did.Today, weddings are grand but feelings far less than grand. Most people come to receptions, not marriages. Everyone is interested in showing up in their best clothes, jewellery and make up. There are impersonal buffets (as my dad calls). Everything is outsourced. Nobody stays over. The only time you see a distant aunt is in the ritualistic reception snap.
Earlier, my parents would never miss a wedding or seemantham or poonal or small occasion. You just need to be invited. Today, we spend thousands on doing a beautiful invitation but very few turn up :-) Nobody cares to plan for their friend's weddings. Invitations are sent a week or days in advance. Only close friends send informal invites ahead of time. No one minds if u do not attend weddings. In those days you'll be an outcast if you did that. Everyone was almost dressed alike. Same pattu sarees. Only different colour. Today some people turn up in shorts for weddings. Women have a ball. You could do western, salwars, ghagras, sarees or just about anything blingy. The bling factor is there...
http://india.blogs.nytimes.
The men had roles and women also had roles. In most families marriage was due to compulsion. Not choice. You may have spent 60 years with your spouse, but never loving them or understanding them. Today, most people converse. They try to support and understand the spouse. They partake in the upbringing of the baby. Many men cook and clean. Some even take paternity leave to help the wives. They promote their wife's talents. They support their interests. Very few men did this in olden days. Wives never shared their opinions or wishes. Today, it's different. Women have voices.. and more loud ones. Their dressing styles have changed. You can wear shorts in front of your in laws... you don't need to touch people's feet or wear a ghoonghat. You can eat when you're hungry, before your in laws eat...
Food - We only had traditional food. Restaurants came in 1990s. Maybe 3-4 visits per year. I used to order barotta kurma or naan or paneer butter masala or cutlet, I think. Today we see world food channels. We cook world cuisine. We buy or import exotic ingredients. But, what I realized is, I tried so many cuisines and never mastered any. So, you start with one.. master it and then move on. Else you never become an expert and cooking is one thing where jack of all trades, master of none - almost never works. Food requires a deep understanding.. It's a lot of art, science and chemistry. Mastering your grandma's recipes is highly recommended for today's people.
Conversations, music, movies and entertainment - were different. Today, we have variety. We can openly watch kissing scenes. We can play loud music. Everyone can own their own laptops and music devices. We even have one TV per room. Personal computer paved way for personal entertainment. Don't know what all will become 'personal'.
Meetings, communication and facebook - We used to meet friends at addas. Now there is twitter and facebook. People idolized Rajini and Kamal. They do so even now. But, you have access to Shah Rukh and Amitabh through TV channels, ads, their blogs and twitters. You see more of them and access more of them. Faaltu news channels are anyway there, tracking famous people. Good old crawling posts are gone. Lightning fast emails are here. Even your roadside snack shop has a website and email address. I don't know when the postal service will shut down altogether.
Phones - these have changed all rules. When we're free we call a friend. We SMS.. We surf..we play games. So - I feel whatever free time we get, we sit in front of the TV or computer or iPad or iPhone.
Probably we're keeping ourself too busy. Otherwise we could have used this spare time for something else.
TV - There were millions of Indians who loved DD. Chitrahaar, rangoli, sunday movies, surabhi, Malgudi days, Byomkesh Bakshi, Jaspal bhatti's flop show, Mahabharat and Ramayana, Jeevan Rekha, Junoon.. and in Tamil there was Rayil sneham and a series of short serials Penn by Suhasini which were good. http://oldidiotbox.blogspot.in/
No reality shows or cookery shows or travel shows or celebrity related show. News was plain news. Cricket and sports covered adequately.
Today there are 100s of channels. I don't even tune into news or sports. Everyone almost comments about the disgusting quality of most of the channels. Some of the foreign channels are good though - NGC, TLC, Discovery, History, etc.
Internet - the internet has shrunk geographical boundaries. I can talk to a blogger in Brazil and ask her tips for cooking a brazilian dish. How cool! If my mother in law forgets a small chapter in history I can google it for her. My dad is the master user of google. He has found old friends on facebook and connected with them. I, personally have found that the internet gives superficial info. If you need deep insights, buy a book. Also, there is so much info, you get lost. If I want to study on a topic. thousand people have thousand views. I open 20 tabs and I don't finish even one. Somehow this easy access never worked well for me. It distracts me from my path. But, nevertheless searching for something or connecting with someone - is something the internet is best known for. Imagine searching for a quote you heard 20 years ago, in real world.. The internet to me - is synonymous with search. One marketing prof remarked that it has served to bridge the gap between rural and urban people. Online shopping makes products available to people in remote parts of the world. He remarked that people use reviews to make product buying decisions. It makes information available to them. It makes possibilities available to them. You can connect with the right people and even make your own rocket! I use it for very trivial tasks like searching for recipes though. Your blog is probably a better diary. You can type fast in your own thoughts, though it is not your handwriting. You can search your blog. You can erase and redo as many times. You can be endlessly creative with the computer. Does that mean, real artists will lose their charm?
Movies and music - Just today brangan wrote a post abt what cinema watching was, in olden days.
http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/lights-camera-conversation-a-bit-of-critical-thinking-2/
Radio was a major entertainment then. Everybody owned a transistor. Listening to your favourite songs on radio was like heaven - especially at night. It's heart wrenching to see many people writing to radio stations for "aap ki farmaaish" even nowadays. There's an old world charm to it. Like the Telegram, many things will become a thing of the past.
Today we can get a movie downloaded within days of its release. We can get music free of cost. We can listen to music in swahili. You have choice.. a lot of choice. You can make music at home. Things have become easy. You just need the talent. I do feel that, it's equally tough to make money from movies or music due to the same factors. There is heavy competition. There is piracy and plagiarism. You need to fight hard to survive in that world.
Books and bookstores -There are many small publishers today. There are many formats of books too. Print industry in general is suffering though there are more releases per month nowadays. Bookstores are closing by the dozen.
http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/gone-with-the-wind/article4884140.ece
Everyone who blogs, can write a book today. But who reads? I don't know how some books make money. Every week The Hindu carries articles of tens of new authors. Who reads all these books? The economics of this is not well understood. But again, you have more choice, more access. You can e-order erotic books. You can search for rare regional books on the net. You can get discounts. You can access old magazines or foreign publications easily, without spending a bomb.
Sincerity and depth of research - I feel the people who were well read in those days really worked more hard and sincerely. Probably because they had less distraction. I find English lovers of those days more elegantly educated than today. That is a personal perception though. Many prof complain that most students are less interested in studies and more interested in fat paychecks. That was there then too. But due to campus placements, network hiring, etc, the opportunities today are different from the opportunities of those days. Those days - to get a non government job, maybe it was difficult. You had to know people, pay bribes or be exceptional.
Photoshop and easy availability of makeup tools - looking like a diva - Everyone looks photoshopped :-) Most American actors look heavily surgerized. All this neatness looks overwhelming to me. They appear like caricatures or zombies. Everyone can look like their favourite film star now. Film stars have lost their sheen coz the girl next door can end up with the same dress like them and same jewels, hairstyle and makeup.. But consumers have a jolly time.
Choice of careers and social pressures - It is still best to be an engineer or doctor in India. It is imperative to have a white collar job - one that pays well.. and takes you to exotic destinations. Many people do have such jobs now. Starting pays are quite high and availability of money for people in certain sectors is good. So the fight for money is not there for a certain section of people. Those days the really rich ones owned cars. Today everyone owns cars. Its easy to own one. It's easy to own a fridge or big TV or washing machine. In those days we couldn't afford these. There is still social pressure to have a well paying job but if your parents are open or you're strong you could be a pet care owner or fridge magnet maker or hairband maker. You could own your own business. Entrepreneurship is the buzzword today. There is availability of advice and financial help. You could home deliver filter coffee or recycle waste. Do whatever you want.
Choice of sexuality - People are openly declaring their sexualities. With new LGBT rules this is a positive step foward. I wish something nice happens to transgenders as well. That is an area I feel very disturbed about.
So, now that the bucket list is here.. I can skip to the next topic :-)
My parents had the same life too. Life was quite a struggle. Mostly monetarily. Struggle to feed. Struggle to have a decent place to stay. In a house like ours where both parents worked, we still had monetary problems. Single income families without inheritance were worse off. I know my dad's friends who still do not own a house. I was wondering "Thank god, I did not hit these issues. Such issues don't make you a better person. It's just painful".
But, don't I have struggles in life? Is my life all sweet and beautiful? I'm not talking about the health issues at all..General lifestyle issues.. social issues, job issues etc.
We all go through life in different ways. If we all faced the same problems, we'd pretty much be the same as our parents or maybe friends or relatives. Each so-called generation, which was every 100 yrs long back or every decade few decades ago.. but is soon becoming a few years now... brings with it hordes of changes... some of us adapt well to the change. Some don't. So the suffer. They resist change. Even I do. So, our lives are so different from our parents's. We're very different people than them. That's what makes us unique. They can learn something from us and we can learn something from them.
I'm just recollecting the changes I observed.
Our parents pretty much had stable jobs. I, for one have had so many jobs. I have lost jobs. Many of us today are very insecure about our jobs which leads to a lot of stress and makes us defensive and not-so-nice to colleagues. Competition tab bhi tha. Ab bhi hai. But the atmosphere created due to severe job insecurity is bad. So are deadlines. My parents never knew deadlines or spoke about it.
They always returned home pretty much at the same time. I have never come home at the same time. The hours kept getting longer, as I grew up the ladder.
Our parents had to cook to serve guests. Guests would come uninvited, without warning. People just dropped in and it was discourteous not to serve them food. Whatever you have, you make and serve. Also, guests would stay over for long periods. We always had relatives's kids studying at our place, staying for medical treatment or crashing after a relative's wedding. We - craft details. We inform our hosts the exact time of arrival. Our hosts can serve us restaurant food or take us out. You have home deliveries now. Everything is home delivered except parents and kids.
There was no rest from household work for women. Except wealthy families who hired help, all others depended on the women for good and clean homes. Today, we can hire as many helps as you can afford. You have the luxury of eating out. I was shocked, not surprised, to see hordes or Tam Brahms visiting Saravana bhavan on weekends. It's nice that the men folk want to relieve the women of kitchen duties atleast on weekends. But, it's bothersome that more and more people depend on outside food. It's not healthy. Soon, many traditional recipes will be lost. It is interesting to note the small scale food businesses. You get seedai, murukku, thattai, appams, payasam, adhirasam and other delicacies in small shops run by traditional women. It's interesting. Many women have started earning money over such businesses. Some own "powder shops" which home deliver home style chutney podis and masala powders. One guy home delivers good filter coffee each morning. So, these are good things. I personally feel good when someone is rewarded for their talent. Women who cook at home and do household work are really looked down upon or unpaid for or don't feel respected enough. To see this new respect and also the added income to their kitty banks, is a good thing.
The more easy we think life has become, the more complex it is. Our parents payed a few bills..electricity, gas, sometimes phone.
we pay so many bills.. electricity, gas, paper, internet, phone, driver, DTH, maid, car cleaner, nanny.
Journeys were meticulously planned months or year in advance. Every journey was looked forward to. Today, at the clap of hands, we book train or flight tickets. Weekends can lead us anywhere from forests to beaches. The world has shrunk due to flights and purchasing power.
Shopping - this was a term that never existed in my parents's world. The only shopping was grocery shopping and yearly once or twice clothes shopping. Groceries never included exotic items. Even biscuits and snacks were rare. Bread butter jam was a luxury. Clothes were for occasions. One for the birthday and one for diwali. There was much anticipation for those 2 new clothes. Now, every weekend or sale period we shop. We no longer wear new clothes for diwali or birthdays!
We have become less conscious about wasting. We buy too much and dispose too much. We also waste too much. Somehow the things we buy, lose their importance once we own them. Also in olden days durability of products was high. TV sets lasted 20 years. Furniture lasted for generations. Today everything is made to break soon. Else, we get bored and we change. We used to reuse most products from the jam bottles to surf covers. Today, with the way and quantity of usage, we have to throw the bottles away, else our house will have no space for us to live. Affluence - is the new buzzword on the decade. A newfound affluence. Money was always scarce. Things to buy - big budget ones were planned months in advance. Money was saved little by little to procure our object of desire. So many wishes remained unfulfilled. Today, I can pretty much buy whatever I want, within the same day, but the joy of saving and planning and owning is not there.
Weddings were different. More traditional. More a place to meet your kin. It was a 3 day affair. Many people pitched in. Food would be discussed for months after the wedding. The bride was never gorgeously dressed. Just a silk saree, jewels and flowers. No one cared for her feelings. Maybe the mother and aunts gave her tips on how to be a good homemaker and how to adjust with the in laws no matter what they said or did.Today, weddings are grand but feelings far less than grand. Most people come to receptions, not marriages. Everyone is interested in showing up in their best clothes, jewellery and make up. There are impersonal buffets (as my dad calls). Everything is outsourced. Nobody stays over. The only time you see a distant aunt is in the ritualistic reception snap.
Earlier, my parents would never miss a wedding or seemantham or poonal or small occasion. You just need to be invited. Today, we spend thousands on doing a beautiful invitation but very few turn up :-) Nobody cares to plan for their friend's weddings. Invitations are sent a week or days in advance. Only close friends send informal invites ahead of time. No one minds if u do not attend weddings. In those days you'll be an outcast if you did that. Everyone was almost dressed alike. Same pattu sarees. Only different colour. Today some people turn up in shorts for weddings. Women have a ball. You could do western, salwars, ghagras, sarees or just about anything blingy. The bling factor is there...
http://india.blogs.nytimes.
The men had roles and women also had roles. In most families marriage was due to compulsion. Not choice. You may have spent 60 years with your spouse, but never loving them or understanding them. Today, most people converse. They try to support and understand the spouse. They partake in the upbringing of the baby. Many men cook and clean. Some even take paternity leave to help the wives. They promote their wife's talents. They support their interests. Very few men did this in olden days. Wives never shared their opinions or wishes. Today, it's different. Women have voices.. and more loud ones. Their dressing styles have changed. You can wear shorts in front of your in laws... you don't need to touch people's feet or wear a ghoonghat. You can eat when you're hungry, before your in laws eat...
Food - We only had traditional food. Restaurants came in 1990s. Maybe 3-4 visits per year. I used to order barotta kurma or naan or paneer butter masala or cutlet, I think. Today we see world food channels. We cook world cuisine. We buy or import exotic ingredients. But, what I realized is, I tried so many cuisines and never mastered any. So, you start with one.. master it and then move on. Else you never become an expert and cooking is one thing where jack of all trades, master of none - almost never works. Food requires a deep understanding.. It's a lot of art, science and chemistry. Mastering your grandma's recipes is highly recommended for today's people.
Conversations, music, movies and entertainment - were different. Today, we have variety. We can openly watch kissing scenes. We can play loud music. Everyone can own their own laptops and music devices. We even have one TV per room. Personal computer paved way for personal entertainment. Don't know what all will become 'personal'.
Meetings, communication and facebook - We used to meet friends at addas. Now there is twitter and facebook. People idolized Rajini and Kamal. They do so even now. But, you have access to Shah Rukh and Amitabh through TV channels, ads, their blogs and twitters. You see more of them and access more of them. Faaltu news channels are anyway there, tracking famous people. Good old crawling posts are gone. Lightning fast emails are here. Even your roadside snack shop has a website and email address. I don't know when the postal service will shut down altogether.
Phones - these have changed all rules. When we're free we call a friend. We SMS.. We surf..we play games. So - I feel whatever free time we get, we sit in front of the TV or computer or iPad or iPhone.
Probably we're keeping ourself too busy. Otherwise we could have used this spare time for something else.
TV - There were millions of Indians who loved DD. Chitrahaar, rangoli, sunday movies, surabhi, Malgudi days, Byomkesh Bakshi, Jaspal bhatti's flop show, Mahabharat and Ramayana, Jeevan Rekha, Junoon.. and in Tamil there was Rayil sneham and a series of short serials Penn by Suhasini which were good. http://oldidiotbox.blogspot.in/
No reality shows or cookery shows or travel shows or celebrity related show. News was plain news. Cricket and sports covered adequately.
Today there are 100s of channels. I don't even tune into news or sports. Everyone almost comments about the disgusting quality of most of the channels. Some of the foreign channels are good though - NGC, TLC, Discovery, History, etc.
Internet - the internet has shrunk geographical boundaries. I can talk to a blogger in Brazil and ask her tips for cooking a brazilian dish. How cool! If my mother in law forgets a small chapter in history I can google it for her. My dad is the master user of google. He has found old friends on facebook and connected with them. I, personally have found that the internet gives superficial info. If you need deep insights, buy a book. Also, there is so much info, you get lost. If I want to study on a topic. thousand people have thousand views. I open 20 tabs and I don't finish even one. Somehow this easy access never worked well for me. It distracts me from my path. But, nevertheless searching for something or connecting with someone - is something the internet is best known for. Imagine searching for a quote you heard 20 years ago, in real world.. The internet to me - is synonymous with search. One marketing prof remarked that it has served to bridge the gap between rural and urban people. Online shopping makes products available to people in remote parts of the world. He remarked that people use reviews to make product buying decisions. It makes information available to them. It makes possibilities available to them. You can connect with the right people and even make your own rocket! I use it for very trivial tasks like searching for recipes though. Your blog is probably a better diary. You can type fast in your own thoughts, though it is not your handwriting. You can search your blog. You can erase and redo as many times. You can be endlessly creative with the computer. Does that mean, real artists will lose their charm?
Movies and music - Just today brangan wrote a post abt what cinema watching was, in olden days.
http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/lights-camera-conversation-a-bit-of-critical-thinking-2/
Radio was a major entertainment then. Everybody owned a transistor. Listening to your favourite songs on radio was like heaven - especially at night. It's heart wrenching to see many people writing to radio stations for "aap ki farmaaish" even nowadays. There's an old world charm to it. Like the Telegram, many things will become a thing of the past.
Today we can get a movie downloaded within days of its release. We can get music free of cost. We can listen to music in swahili. You have choice.. a lot of choice. You can make music at home. Things have become easy. You just need the talent. I do feel that, it's equally tough to make money from movies or music due to the same factors. There is heavy competition. There is piracy and plagiarism. You need to fight hard to survive in that world.
Books and bookstores -There are many small publishers today. There are many formats of books too. Print industry in general is suffering though there are more releases per month nowadays. Bookstores are closing by the dozen.
http://www.thehindu.com/features/magazine/gone-with-the-wind/article4884140.ece
Everyone who blogs, can write a book today. But who reads? I don't know how some books make money. Every week The Hindu carries articles of tens of new authors. Who reads all these books? The economics of this is not well understood. But again, you have more choice, more access. You can e-order erotic books. You can search for rare regional books on the net. You can get discounts. You can access old magazines or foreign publications easily, without spending a bomb.
Sincerity and depth of research - I feel the people who were well read in those days really worked more hard and sincerely. Probably because they had less distraction. I find English lovers of those days more elegantly educated than today. That is a personal perception though. Many prof complain that most students are less interested in studies and more interested in fat paychecks. That was there then too. But due to campus placements, network hiring, etc, the opportunities today are different from the opportunities of those days. Those days - to get a non government job, maybe it was difficult. You had to know people, pay bribes or be exceptional.
Photoshop and easy availability of makeup tools - looking like a diva - Everyone looks photoshopped :-) Most American actors look heavily surgerized. All this neatness looks overwhelming to me. They appear like caricatures or zombies. Everyone can look like their favourite film star now. Film stars have lost their sheen coz the girl next door can end up with the same dress like them and same jewels, hairstyle and makeup.. But consumers have a jolly time.
Choice of careers and social pressures - It is still best to be an engineer or doctor in India. It is imperative to have a white collar job - one that pays well.. and takes you to exotic destinations. Many people do have such jobs now. Starting pays are quite high and availability of money for people in certain sectors is good. So the fight for money is not there for a certain section of people. Those days the really rich ones owned cars. Today everyone owns cars. Its easy to own one. It's easy to own a fridge or big TV or washing machine. In those days we couldn't afford these. There is still social pressure to have a well paying job but if your parents are open or you're strong you could be a pet care owner or fridge magnet maker or hairband maker. You could own your own business. Entrepreneurship is the buzzword today. There is availability of advice and financial help. You could home deliver filter coffee or recycle waste. Do whatever you want.
Choice of sexuality - People are openly declaring their sexualities. With new LGBT rules this is a positive step foward. I wish something nice happens to transgenders as well. That is an area I feel very disturbed about.
So, now that the bucket list is here.. I can skip to the next topic :-)
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