Me and another Af member talked about this and it's quiet interesting. Being the oldest, and a male, of all my siblings and cousins, don't it sometimes feel like the older generation of your family make you feel a little smaller. I mean my grandad seemed like although he lacked college education that he can kick anybody's @$$ eventhough he's past seventy, he know how to climb anything, he knew how to build a house from scratch, probably less scared of getting killed (he help fight the Japanese.'s, hid and smuggle weapons during Marcos' time). My father grew up in the meaner streets, he had to look out for himself, he raised a family almost single handedly, he's now a small time enterpreneur and still going.

Anybody feel like that, that however much you gain you still ain't as good as the older generations?

wooooooow its soooo tru man!!! way to think of it. ive never found a way to describe it and u spoke for me. good job flipcom

ye i do feel that way. my parents experienced hardships when they were young and they seem to know more than what i have. its pbbly bcuz their parents never had the chance to give them luxury unlike us kids these days.

^that's how it is in my family. we didn't have as much opportunity, so each generation as more opportunity arise, my families' philosophy is to seize it, and swear that the next generation isn't going to go as bad as the one before. i think poverty and hardship adds alot of personality.

ye maybe i should try seeking my own life from now on rather than depend too much on my parents. it gives alot to appreciate.

^that might help.

I did when I was growing up. My dad was my idol. His was my grandfather.

When he was with the AFP, he used to tell me how crazy American soldiers were (he trained with them). My grandfather was a veteran of Bessang Pass and claimed how crazy American soldiers were. I am now a bonafide American soldier veteran.

My grandfather is never short in showing his appreaciation for continuing a family tradition. My mother, told my sisters who were too young to remember my father before he died that they need not look very far to see how our father was. I guess I have become him.

oo nga. feeling ko ay mahilig ang mga elders ng naglalait ng tao. mas lalo pa kung pamilya nila. ganun talaga kahit sinong tao. parang gusto lilang i-compare ka sa utol mo. o kun di kaya yung anak ni so & so. pero yung tatay mo pala ay maton. lolz! grabe. at least nakatikim ka ng stirct na enviroment. id rather have a disciplinarian father than a slacker, dead beat dad, di ba?

no it's not that at all. they don't say anything, esp. my pops or my grandad, they're not like "oh back in my day..." types, but just the fact them folks did such bigger lives, or at least in my mind, that it seems whatever i do to try to make myself be on their shoes, i always feel lacking. esp. since i've seen that life, unlike some of American grown kids here who's never tasted it at all.