we'd rather be wearing nice jeans.

Lately I have been really thinking about identity. where do I find it? where do you? we had a friend over the other night and we were talking about how our generation finds it's identity in different places than our parent's generation. According to Brad who is studying this type of thing right now, "our parents and their parents found their identity in their jobs, our generation would rather spend less time at their work, make less and come home with more time to do things that they love to do".
We would rather have the time than the money is what studies say. We would rather do more of what we love and sacrifice by not making as much as we possibly could...or do we make some from our jobs and borrow a lot more from creditors than our parents would have???

I do wonder where we find our identity. I know that our parents did not get it right by finding it in who they became professionally...and I think we are just as far off, if not further. We are not classified by what we do at work, we are identified by what we spend our time off doing. We can go to concerts, be rock climbers, cyclists, I would argue that our generation has become a first glance generation. A microwave generation, a generation that is not willing to be patient and wait for something. This will sound mean, but I think many have given up on the issues of character, not willing to work on issues that people wouldn't see until the second or third date. We spend to much to look good and and not just look good but do it as if our lives depended on it. The deepness and the selflessness, honesty, and the value of our word is dwindling, the character that will make you stick through it all, is so far removed from who we are today...let's just say it straight: we'd rather be wearing nice jeans.


I know posts such as these do not get comments, so I am expecting none...but go for it, give your two cents...if you have not already spent them.