Safa means tranquil, serene, calm…I try

Several occurances over the past few weeks have me asking this question. The first was when I went bowling with a couple of co-workers as a “team building” activity. There were 7 of us all together and about 4 of them, aged 22-28 had never heard the term “grasping at straws”. I will say that there was a girl around 24 who was well aware of this term. It really blew my mind. There are sayings and expressions that I just assume are universal…at least “universal” in the sense that the US represents the universe.

Another incident was a few days ago. I was playing a game like T.rivial Pursuit…it is called Crani.um. Now I usually excel at these types of games b/c I have always been sort of a movie, tv, and all around pop culture junkie. Also, as I mentioned before, I am a heavy reader so my vocab is pretty strong masha’Allah. However, allowing for that, I think something’s wrong with a lot of the Y generation.

On the 9th I turned 36. I have recently started to accept that 36 may be “older” than I initially thought. One of the questions was to impersonate a famous person. This is exactly what I said, “Stella…Stella” and “I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse”. NO ONE on my team could guess Marlon Bra.ndo. One of the girls even said, “oh, yeah, he just died 2 weeks ago”. I had to remind her that it was actually his son who had died” .

Another famous person I got was, well let me see if you could guess. This is what I said, “I was known as the woman of camelot, I wore these huge sunglasses and was known for my pillbox hats and immpecable fashion sense. “In my later years I worked in a NYC publishing house and eventually remarried a greek shipping tycoon” also, ” people refer to me by my 1st name and only the 1st initial of my last name”. Again…no one could guess that I was Jackie On.ansis. I know I could have used less obscure references but I really did not think they were all that obscure!

It just seems to me that people should know more. I mean just general information. This may seem strange coming from someone who no longer owns a TV or really has no interest in current pop culture. However, if you are 30, you should have been able to get my clues. What is that about? Do you think the internet has ruined it for people? I would think that if anything it would have made people smarter since there is more access to information than ever before. I guess it’s all relative since I probably could not win if the clues were about people who have become stars in the last 3-5 years.