The Generation Gap and the Need for Validation!

Human is a 'Social Being'!

The current generation believes in individuality and claims not to bother about others' viewpoints and opinions. Ironically, they have also created avenues for conflicts. Evolutionarily, we are bound to get affected and react to our peers' and family's behavior or opinions! While the millennials were constantly trying to please (either consciously or subconsciously) their friends and family, the Gen Z is constantly making efforts to please a larger community that they believe they are a part of, through the social media connect.

The millennials were driven by the value of cater for the family's needs as a whole, their counterparts value individual needs and equality. While the former got into conflicts related to interpersonal-relationship on those grounds, the Gen Z has similar novel challenges but with complete strangers at times. This immersion and influence early in their brain development interferes in the usual trajectory of evolution!

Imagine you getting exposed and pressurised to convince your views to a larger public - through social media; while your brain is trying to understand/process what a father, mother, sibling or even a real-time friendship means to you - emotionally, physically and socially. It can be argued that we were yet to master emotional regulation as millennials to resovle interpersonal conflicts. So clearly they are also not ready to foster Gen Z as parents who carry their genes as offsprings. It skips major beats to get validated and understood by an 'unknown stranger' at times; trying to figure out why they have or haven't reciprocated!!

Its like building skyscrapers without a reliably understood principles of foundation; i.e. emotional regulation and conflict resolution!!!