Young people, lining up for free burgers. What you didn’t understand about a generation

On Monday, several hundred young people, from high school, from university, huddled in Bucharest, in a queue to get free hamburgers.

While some politicians vomited, other young people did not imagine how those teenagers could be humiliated by a free hamburger. Others still believed in communism, a period that adolescents did not grasp: “This is Romanian, it’s in line, it’s free”, “it’s not a frying pan, it’s a hamburger.”

Beyond the situation in which we find ourselves, with higher prices than in the West, but with “Romanian” salaries, what happened in the center of the Capital was not one of the options listed.

It is school holidays, a pandemic year has passed, there are no activities in Bucharest, young people have gathered (even in a pandemic, without distance, etc.) as in a concert, as in the old queue in shopping malls. Let’s remember the fast food lines on the second day of Christmas, from a shopping center in Bucharest. It was the only open place and all the young people were huddled there. It was what they called fun: eating, socializing, joking, etc.

But yesterday he showed that it is impossible for us to accept and understand a generation. Those children did not keep their distance, but wore masks. Perhaps young people, especially those of the “snowflake” generation, lack socialization, lack of outings, jokes, a group of friends. A small “door” was found for this.

When they started handing out tickets for the next few days, they didn’t seem so excited about tomorrow’s free burger. Instead, they piled up to enter contests, because it was an activity, anything.

What those who vomit do not have is thirst for life. Young people want to live and enjoy every moment of their lives. They still do not have family to support, responsibilities and fertilizers. There are young people who still believe that they can move mountains. And I don’t think anyone has the right to judge that, not even in a pandemic. We are not locked up, like in England. I don’t know if there will be any infection from that hardening, I am not Grandma Vanga, but I just hope that the pandemic makes us more understanding, not resentful.

This article is an opinion.