The W Generation

The W generation

A writer who want to change everything, a politician who wants to be prime minister, small city boys and girls want to be someone like their Hollywood counterpart, young boys and girls want to be celebrities at any cost.

Use of slang and booze and dope makes you cool instantly welcome to the W generation. This W is not for Why this W is for Wannabe. Have a look around you everyone wants to be somebody or show they are somebody else. Every generation is a rebel according to their previous generation. But in case of our generation we are no more rebels anymore it hard to digest but all of us are wannabes in one or other aspect.

It’s true for one and all and if you seriously observe world as well as yourself you will know.

Let’s see some real life scenarios a girl or a boy from a small town come for study in big city and in a few days there is a drastic change in her. Not only the way she or he walk, talk or dressed they even felt shame on mentioning that they belong from some small town.

The other scene a room full with some boys who love music, a big Curt Cobain poster is hanging with a big Jimi Hendrix cut out and everybody in room wearing tee shirts with prints of Iron Maiden, Metallica or Floyd and playing music. Nothing seems bad in it but after an hour’s playing and still not able to get the feel they want a joint or one or two shots to get the spirit high. This is where the wannabe thing comes. They know they are not that much exhausted but they want to be like their idols so they want to do everything what their idols did in past. their idols use dope as a solace from life because they are fed up with this limelight they are not happy from inside and they are lonely, but these fellows are not facing such conditions they just want to use dope to be cool or rather is spell Kool with a K. They are just wanted to be like them so they do these wannabe things.

 Another one and many of us have seen this many times a group of girls and boys hanging around and suddenly a girl spit out a MA BEHAN KI GALI and everyone stare at her and she casually said “are yaar DELHI BELLY dekhne ke baad bhi aise kya dekh rahe ho it’s the in thing” strange isn’t it, but she wants to be KOOL again if she say don’t speak such language than people make fun of her and she will not be considered as kool any more.

Even i think sometime i am a wannabe writer or director but thank god i never follow the footsteps of my idols in wrong direction. But somewhere i cannot deny the fact yes I am a wannabe too.

These are some small example but no difference in this wannabe behaviour in bigger aspects like cinema, politics and all other thing.

Again it looks like I can see some eyebrows are rising. That is the problem you have to explain or justify each and everything.

So look at this example a wannabe prime minister from the so called first family from India eat at every home which is considered as a downtrodden or poor men’s house so he may become the messiah of them and eventually the PM of India. Sometimes I feel strange how come eating at someone’s house or breaking the security can change the life of people. And if he like this way why do not lead such lifestyle.

Now let’s go to the entertainment industry not on big level on just a small level. In the time of reality TV we often see young people from nice family comes to participate and in few hour we see them fighting for limelight and if you ask them why you do such things? Their answer is I want to prove myself. Is this the way to prove you? If you want to prove yourself do some good not for society but at least for you. But know that straight forward way does not give them opportunity to come in limelight, even if the limelight is for some flash of time. They prove themselves by using slang, backstabbing others.

Irony of this thing is if someone points a finger at these wannabes they said look he is the wannabe Gandhi or Bhagat Singh.

So be or not to be I don’t know but always be a wannabe.

-Yogesh Pareek

17-10-2011 01:26:05