The Generation GAP

The B-wallet service introduced by the BOB (since my SB account is in BOB) in collaboration with the BTL has been a very beneficial and time saving service for me as an individual but then  it goes frustratingly unavailable every time BTL offers recharge bonus. I am not alone experiencing this frustration, I have seen angry posts on facebook about how annoying the b-wallet service is and how they are just fooling the people about the bonus thing.

The service was no different on 21^st January, 2015, the Traditional day of offering, when the BTL had offered a 50% bonus on every prepaid recharge made on that day. While I was about to curse the whole thing, my mother fagged after trying the service for like 10 times finally said to herself and said it so softly that although she could have got a bonus on her recharge today, the B-wallet service won’t work. Her softness made me smile instead. My mother has always been a very soft, polite and hell of an emotional woman. “She carries her tears at the tip of her eye lashes”, Apa rightly teases her.

This incident made me think of the many times where my parents were so cool. While I ain’t that bad a person, I get angry very soon and I talk back to people when I have to. I treat people the way they treat me. The tit-for-tat thingy. Well usually, when it’s my sister and I shopping, its like we also buy the shopkeeper’s tongue. If they are rude, we leave the shop. But going around with parents is different, it’s like they don’t understand what “rude” is. My mom will be smiling and my dad joking anyway. I get angrier when others are rude to my parents. They are my parents; I can only do what I want with them. I get frustrated at their ignorance some times. I scold them for not getting mad when others are rude. Sometimes they agree to what I say, other times I get yelled back for being so tempered.

For me, this is the generation gap. The 90s are more tempered than the 60s. The 3 decade difference has made people a lot more advanced in technologies but ill mannered, prettier but less beautiful, stylish and fashionable but with bad attitudes, exposed but narrow, and greedier, rude-er and angrier.

Now this is funny. :D

My parents take things so positively, they amaze me. The live so simple, yet they are happier. I am gonna grow old to be like my parents. Because at the end, all that matters is what makes you and keeps you happy.

My beautiful beloved parents