Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Dinner with 2 generations

Ray organized a dinner on Sun. I was puzzling at the list on half of the names unknown. He reached there first sitting right in the middle of a long table. I was the 2nd, so naturally I sat right opposite him in the middle of the long table. Friends started streaming in after 20 minutes. Coincidentally, the four on my right occupied by old mates; and the four on my left occupied by new faces. And interestingly enough, the average age of old mates was 40 and the average age of new faces was 24. I was sitting right in the middle pulsating by the differences between the 2 ambiences.

- The left one was obviously more energetic than the right one
- The left one spoke in obvious faster pace than the right one
- The left one was more rowdy than the right one
- The left one always talked about things that were not connected and came everywhere; whereas the right one engrossed passionately on the topic of pet alone
- The left one ordered food to share among the four; the right one had favorite disc for his own
- The left one and the right one occasionally interacted in a polite way

Sign.... had I just been bombarded with generation gap?