A Generation behind

See, when you see some of us do what we do, it’s not ’cause we want to, it’s because we have to — we are a generation behind.

It’s realizing all your friends enjoy luxuries and move up in life so fast at a pace you can’t even fathom, simply because their parents put in the work and set a foundation you don’t have. When shit hits the fan, we have no backup, we have no safety net, no generational wealth, no generational property, no generational insurance, not even a land to call home that we can fall back to or lean on — we are a generation behind.

It’s realizing that you always reach and go through stages of life 5 to 10 years later than the rest.
 It’s getting to do your masters in your 30s while your peers did that in their early to mid 20s. It’s getting to build or even afford the idea of owning a home in your 40s, when your peers built and were landlords in their mid 20s. It’s getting to experience the luxuries of travel and going abroad in your late 20s and mid 30s when your friends did that in their teens and early 20s. It’s getting to finally afford to love someone and actually think of marriage in your late 30s when your friends got married in their mid and late 20s with their weddings fully funded by their parents. No girl wants to marry anyone who can’t even afford a wedding, am I right? We are a generation behind.

We don’t get to choose the hand that we’re dealt. We don’t get to choose who chooses life for us. While you finish university and wander the world, others finish uni and their parents put them on a path to grad school in foreign countries, starter jobs in banks. Things that don’t seem like much until you are in your elder years and realize that early start, that early masters, that early job placement bought them a 5 to 10 year head start — we are a generation behind.

A friend once told me, “At some point, someone had to put in the work.” American forefathers had to fight and shed blood for the freedom you enjoy today. Similarly, someone’s forefathers put in the work and now their kids get to be a generation ahead of you. While you do what their fathers did so your kids can do what your friends are doing now — we are a generation behind.

Wealth begets wealth. Generations build on generations, and being a generation behind is being a generation behind, no ifs and maybe about that. Something drastic has to happen for you to catch up, like maybe moving abroad. But again, that’s what most of our colleagues’ parents did for their kids to enjoy the lives they live today. We’re doing now what their parents did back then — we are a generation behind.

Either way, let me do what I have to do so my kids will be a generation in the right place.

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