In the mid 1980s, a show know as Different Strokes hit the airwaves on NBC, this show show dealt a good bit with many issues that plagued the 80s like drug abuse and so on and so forth. It also jump started the career of a famous actor known as Gary Coleman, Gary also gave us the famous line that just about every person has used since "what you talkin bout Willis?". This line is forever engraved on the mind of people especially those who lived in the 1980s. However, this has nothing to do with what I will be talking about in today's blog I just thought it was a good thing to bring up as we are talking about different generations.
In the show Different Strokes, not only were heavy issues talked about the there major differences in the people in the show and that is what this blog is going to talk about, the difference in generations from one to the next. Being that I am a 22 year old, and single my parents and I along with some of my family members talk on a consistent basis about getting older and getting married (one day). I must say that the older I have become the more and more I feel like I could make in this world without a significant other. I don't necessarily want to be a bachelor the rest of my life but I have become okay with it and God continues to show me that this is not the ultimate goal in my life but rather to follow Him on a daily basis, and as an evangelist friend of mine says, and to grow day by day by day in Word (Bible) and in my prayer life.
I do believe that one day that right girl will come into my life, but as for now I am learning to rely solely upon the Power of God, and this is what being a Follower of the Way truly means, to follow "the WAY the TRUTH and the LIFE" and that is Jesus Christ this what Christians were called in the First Century A.D.; however, I am getting off my original subject on the difference in generations. With my parents, and their parents generation, I feel as though the most important thing in their lives was getting married I mean my grandparents got married around the age 17 and 18 and even for me that would mean I would have been married for at least 4 or 5 years by now. I look around and so many of friends getting married which is great, but I stop and think and I know 100% in my heart that I am not ready for marriage or for that matter children. I applaud those that can do it but I am truly not worried about.
The more and more I think about it, I honestly believe that our generation is the most independent generation since the beginning of time but I also see two sides to the coin I see some that find their hope truly and solely upon God and that gives them peace. While another group of people find themselves, seeking peace through others and they are relying upon others for peace when TRUE peace can only come from God. This side of our generation has made marriage degrading in many ways, I truly hate this occurred but we see it more and more everyday we also a degrading of nuclear family model. It is heartbreaking to see a child who comes from a single parent home or child that is being raised by grandparents. Although I am not married, I view marriage as one of the most sacred events inside and outside the walls the church and my hope is that soon we will see a rise of marriage being a sacred act once again. Until the time I get married (presuming of course) I will be in prayer marriage will become a more sacred act, in the joining of two becoming one.
