Generation Gap

I have been wanting to write this post for a long time now but something always stops me. Whatever. 

More I interact with my daughter, older I feel. People keep telling me that age is just a number. Yeah. Sure. It most definitely is not, especially if you are reminded by a young and a growing daughter about your uncoolness every single day.

The signs of feeling old are all around me:

1.     She uses words, which I just don’t understand. Words like `Duh’, `sush and more such idiotic terms which hardly mean a thing. At the risk of sounding really old and uncool, I asked her what does `duh’ mean. Her eyes almost popped out of sockets and then believe it or not, she said, `duh’ and walked off.

2.     She puts on music I find hard to listen let alone appreciate. Some song about “where my demons live.”, which she likes to play in loop whenever she gets control of her system. 

3.     I have to regularly take her help in understanding technology especially if it is an Apple product. There are some applications on my phone which I just don’t understand and have to regularly request her help.      

• She thinks and believes it is difficult to live without internet. I come from a generation which has lived for a few years without internet and mobile phones and heaven will not fall if I again have to live without being connected. Hell, we didn't even have that ancient looking black phone while growing up in Kanpur. This makes me feel really old...

4.     The Daughter is most comfortable with 3D movies and I have to hold her hand and control an urge to shout if I see a dinosaur walking towards us. “It is just a movie mama,” she would admonish. Wait. Wasn’t that supposed to be my dialogue. Very sad this is and very scary.

5.     Movies are probably where the difference or generational gap is most visible. Every time I look at TV at what she is watching I see that the world is coming to an end; people are fighting with weird looking creatures to find some treasure in Egypt; aliens are trying to take over the planet; harry potter etc. “Why don’t you watch something which has normal human beings in the cast?” is my usual refrain. The daughter just looks at me as if I have landed from some other planet.

6.     My daughter thinks if I haven’t read Percy Jackson I have wasted my years.