My Generation

In Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" his first line is "I saw the best minds of my generation..." In class Mr. Duemer had us do a writing exercise which would start in the very same way. I thought that this was such a good idea because too often is my generation criticized for how we act or what we have done, so I like the idea that I can think about some of the ways my generation has succeeded in their own way. I saw the best minds of my generation be the first to do many things our parents and older generations would never dream of. My generation has learned to master technology in almost any form; computers, laptops, MP3 Players, cell phones, tablet devices, etc. I can imagine that my generation will continue to develop these technologies in ways that I can't even imagine. We have taken technology that was introduced to us and incorporated it into our day-to-day, minute-by-minute lives.

My generation has banned together in many ways. We participated in voting a black man into presidency, organized charities for 9/11, Haiti, and oil spills, my generation has taken some of the first steps into bettering the earth's health, has accepted homosexuals in the norm of every day life much more than generations before us ever had. (This last comment of mine had been briefly discussed in class. Someone had said that the acceptance of homosexuals is barely in existence. Although I have to agree that the fact that a homosexual couple cannot get legally married is absolutely unacceptable and should definitely change. I feel that as soon as our generation is in some sort of greater power there will be a tremendous move for the legalization of gay marriage to occur. Furthermore I believe that no other generation has ever been as accepting of homosexuals as my generation is today.)

Although there are probably a million more ideas I could attribute to my generation, I feel as though I have hit upon two of the largest topics that I see on a daily basis.