Free Write: My Generation

Just recently, I have gotten hooked to this documentary/drama series, My Generation. It revolves around 9 or 10 people of the graduating class of 2000. Then the camera people followed them up until now. After 9/11, Bush, Obama, and many other significant events within the past 10 years.

Each of the ten students were catgorized as the typical high school student, you know, "The Jock", "The Punk", and "The Brain".

Well, I watched the first two episodes and then the show got canceled. Which really disappointed me because it was really good. In a documentary/drama sort of way. What I remember from that show (okay, I watched it on Hulu like 5 minutes ago) was really that maybe we all have these expectations set out for us, but then it all comes tumbling down because of some significant changes in our lives.

For example, in the show there is "The Over-Achiever." There was only one word to describe his future, and that was success. It didn't matter what, it didn't matter where. He wanted success. Turns out, his dad was arressted for a huge fraud claim for the company he owned. The result of that was his mom and him losing their assets and him becoming a bartender in Hawaii.

Another big 'fail,' which is the most appropriate word to say here was "The Nerd." He wasn't a bad guy at all. All he wants to do with his lfe is have a good job and produce a lot of kids. Back in high school, he dated "The Punk" which in turn married "The Jock" and now is pregnant with a kid while jock is in Afghanistan. And punk is living with nerd.

Nerd is infertile which really sucks for him.

Let me just break this down:

"The Jock" marries "The Punk"; who used to date "The Nerd," "The Jock" is serving in Afghanistan. "The Nerd" used to be best friends with "The Over Achiever," but stopped because he blames him for the death of his father. "The Over Achiever" had a one-night stand with "The Wallflower" and they now both have a son who's ten. "The Over Achiever" is really good friends with "The Rockstar" and they discuss that matter. "The Rocker" meets up with "The Brain" in a restauraunt. "The Brain" used to have a solid relationship with "The Rich Kid" (who played Wren in PLL fyi) then they broke up due to the parent subject. "The Rich Kid" is now married to "The Beauty Queen" who I sware is just using him for his money and his awesome cooking skills, while she--can't do shit.

The last paragraph was basically a brain dump, but you can see how this would kind of relate to 'our generation' today.

The people I have mentioned two paragrahs ago all went to high school together and all graduated the same year. BTW.