The generation gap has been assessed as the negative energy to split parents and children. However, if we were to assimilate, we will realize that the generation gap is something to be grateful about.

Well, the talk of the generation gap is everywhere. We often hear people say, “Generation gap creates conflict and that the parents and children don’t understand each other”. To some extent, this might be true. But, don’t we think that we have contextualized the generation gap as such a negative factor to the point where it has become an excuse for everything that’s happening? I wonder, how much time will it take to realize that, even though the generation gap has disturbed our world, it also has positively touched our life. 

Think about how much you have learned as a parent from your children about technology, relationships, and the world altogether. Likewise, all your advice from your personal experiences has shaped your child’s life. There might be a clash of opinions, misunderstandings, and several disputes when two-generation are living under the same roof, but at the end of the day, it all connects to make a better world. A circle that teaches both to cope with the current situations and know more about happenstances. This will help in increasing tolerance level, listening skills, and the attitude of assimilation. The whole idea of existence is to learn and be open to whatever comes into the way. The biggest question here can be: how patient one will be to understand the different perspectives? Making the most out of any situation is the best idea and today, most of us are educated. Hence, accepting and adapting ourselves and blending to fill the gap between generations can work out well. Elder people or say parents/grandparents have grown up in different scenarios, and children are growing up in different scenarios. Here, if we were to see, children will get to know about the old times when technology was not there and knowing that their parents were not very much privileged with luxury, will make them appreciate their life more along with the addition of knowledge about the developments and progress of the world. Whereas parents will get to live a life they didn’t get to. Seeing their children getting along with all the new inventions and being confident about themselves, and just tuning with the rhythm of the new era, allows them to see themselves in their children.

In conversation with a few parents and children, we find out how the generation gap is constructively helping them to grow:

  • “I have a restaurant, and given the demand, social media can be helpful for the growth of my restaurant. However, I am too old to know about all the posting and writing captions. Thank God, I have Gen Z's son, who handles social media and we could see that the customer’s rate is elevating.”- Dinesh Ghimire.
  • “My mom says that her school was a 1-hour walking distance away. I can’t even imagine how she attended school every day. Now that I have a scooter which makes everything way easier, I feel privileged to the life I have.” – Gracey Khadka.
  •  “I think; today’s children have a different mechanism of thinking. They are way smarter than we were at the age of 15. I get to learn so many new ideas and to live life. we go on vacations with children and the world is expanding.”- Meera Shrestha.
  • “I feel like my mom has all the life solutions. One time, when I had to attend a party at 4 P.M, I was frustrated as I had an assignment left. She comes and says “why don’t you do it while on the way, not that you have to submit a handwritten one.” I was like, “why didn’t I think this before?” I feel that we panic and rush a lot of times instead of trying to find solutions. Thank God, I have a mom.”- Simran Kunwar.

 

The generation gap is often explained as an extended gap that has created a distance between the family members. However, if we were to become more serious and try to mend that unnecessary space, the relationship between two generations can be the most precious one. Imagine, feeling protected because you know that the other person completes you and guides you in the rough way of life. Learning new things every day and enjoying the differences in the best way possible and making lots of memories with loved ones, sounds good. Being respectful to each other’s opinions and letting other people speak the total opposite of what you believe in, can be difficult. Nevertheless, at the end of the day, we are human beings and are connected, we have a relationship with each other, so we might as well welcome people as they are and find some ways to have a good bond.