A Generation Gap Is A Lot...

It's weird... I know my parents are old, and considerably older than me, but I'd never seen the generation gap as a big thing until more recently...

Quite lately it seems like they're from a whole new world... or at least this one only with attitudes of several hundred years ago... it's baffling sometimes

I'd always considered my Dad as technology capable, did a fair job setting up computer at home, worked predominantly in IT and seemed at the least competent... but some of the things he was coming out with today were astonishing. Imagining services on the internet that he wants, that simply don't exist, and asking me to slow down and explain what I was doing when going over a few simple button clicks of stuff I was doing for the first time myself. Also the level of fear he seemed to have for changing things, or having a million layers of encryption for a password with letters, numbers, characters ect, or his worries of having his pictures of landmarks on a recent holiday visible to only people he chooses...

Another thing that I have only really noticed since I broke free of my shackles about 2 years ago is how "white bread" they are... their attitudes to sex and relationships seem like a Nazi regime compared with what some of my friends get... now you may think I'm exaggerating, but let me give you a few examples... If I want a female friend to stay over, I get the reaction "Well you'd better be in separate beds" I stress, this was just a friend, nothing more... and quite frankly if I wanted to share a bed with a female friend, so what? it's just nice having some goddamn company... heaven forbid there should be some actual romantic interest involved, I don't know what they'd do... They tried to have "the talk" with me at 15 (I believe) about how if I did want to have sex (said in the voice one might have used to describe the black death at the time) then they hoped I could sit down and talk it through with them first... as If they think that they are actually approachable... as if every issue I've talked about with them before has gone so smoothly (and yes that is sarcasm)

Now I know this is a very cliche thing to say, but I really do mean it... I really don't think my parents understand me... they are just from a different time... now I'm old enough to voice my own opinion me and my Dad constantly lock horns, anf my Mum just doesn't get it... now don't get me wrong, I love my family... and will have severe words with anyone who speaks bad of them... but this just needs to be said...

Am I the only one who thinks this... or does anyone else agree?

xxx