Counterattack

        I can describe our generation today as a stressed one. This generation tends to be adventure-seeking and achieving. According to what I have read in the essays, a lot of us are into adventures and into learning new skills. We always feel the need to know or feel the need to do, that being unable to do so is disappointing. Even the people who claimed that they had boring semestral breaks wished they could have gone out or at least done sensible things rather than stare up their ceilings. It makes us think that we have to do something or be somewhere to calm our information-hungry brains and adventure-seeking bodies.  

        It makes us goal-oriented as well because most of the essays I have read point out that our generation tends to do everything we can just to achieve our goals. Examples in the essays are leaving hometown just to enroll in the premier university, and sacrificing sleep to do school works. Sometimes, we are so much of being achievers, particularly in the academic field, that we have no time for rest anymore. Having gadgets that are high-tech also gives us more choices in the possible-things-I-can-do list. We have been so busy in the previous semester, given the demands in school and other factors, and it felt like we have done and experienced everything already, but maybe we are still missing out on a lot of other things. And maybe, all we need is to rest after all. Somehow, the vacation was able to give us enough time to have the break we needed.

        The adventure-seeking and achieving qualities our generation has can lead to a lot of things: boredom, disappointment, and possibly, stress. But in the end, these qualities we have can also be utilized to counterattack the bad effects as long as we put them into good use.