A Gen Z confession
I've never really seen myself as a Gen Z'er, although I am one. I never relate to the social media stereotypes of Gen Z'ers and their colloquialisms usage. I don't use words like "periodttt", "purr", "it's giving..." e.t.c
I had asked a friend of mine who happens to be my agemate, and she said she felt the same way. She said it was because we were "old soul Gen Z'ers" i.e., we were on the older end of the spectrum.
I totally understood her. I can't be twenty-four years old and still use the same slang as that of a teenager.
But inasmuch as I don't see myself as one, I can't help but wonder if my "Gen Z - ness" is apparent to the older people around me.
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In January 2020, a mutual friend of my brother and his wife came to their house to stay over.
Now, my older brother and his wife are fifteen years older than I am. So, this mutual friend of theirs happens to be around the same age.
On her first night staying with us, the lady had said that she wanted to watch the 1985 movie - The Color Purple. I had just finished reading the book and I enjoyed it, so I decided to join her to watch the movie.As the movie was ongoing, I saw someone that looked like Whoopi Goldberg, and I naively blurted out, "Is that Whoopi Goldberg? I didn't know she acts."
My brother's friend paused the movie, slowly (and dramatically) turned her head towards me and asked, "Of course, she's the one. What else did you think she did?"
"I know her as a talk show host." I replied, as I wondered if I had said something wrong.
She started laughing. She laughed so hard that I became embarrassed.
"You must be really young." She said. "Whoopi Goldberg has always been an actress. And it's crazy that you JUST know her as a talk show host."
In my defence, I was just twenty, then (later that year, I turned twenty-one) and was a fan of Whoopi on THE VIEW. The only movie that I had seen her in was Nobody's FOOL, and I thought she had just made a GUEST APPEARANCE on them. It was this year that I finally watched Sister's Act and confirmed that she was really an actress (an EGOT winner, to be precise).
Yes, that is my confession. And as silly as that sounds, it's true, and I also have other confessions to make;
1.)I've never watched the movie LION KING.
Both the one that was made in 1994 and the remake that was released in 2019.
Now, obviously, in 1994, I didn't exist. But in 2019, I was about to go to the cinema to watch it, when a coursemate of mine complained that she didn't find it interesting. Now, a broke second-year student like myself had to make a decision on whether to spend five thousand naira on a boring movie or use the money for food for at least three days. The latter seemed to be the better option.
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