I'm part of the chosen generation saved until the last days to help usher in the Second Coming. My deceased parents were part of that generation as were their parents and their parents and etc. All those high schoolers running around are also part of that generation. Those in grade school and even the babies just born are part of that generation.
I am Generation X. Behold my world transforming mutant superpowers of jockeying a dual-screen workstation while I google "30 minute keto one-skillet" and prove to my kids that I love them by liking their Instagram and Facebook at least once daily.
I am still waiting patiently for the hoverboard I was promised in Back to the Future Part II. I can remember where I was during the slow white bronco chase and I had to talk a very good friend off a ledge when Kurt Cobain died. I was making orange juice for my kids on 9/11 when my mom called and told me for Pete's sake turn on the TV.
I can't wait until my Millennial kids tell me how entitled the whippersnappers have become.
Haha, Beth. Yeah. The segway. I knew that was a stretch but I was typing before coffee. Oh yeah. Didn't we invent coffee too and gravity?
I wouldn't brag about anything. I just think this big ole mess we got going is way too big to think it happened by the hand of one span of people 24 years. Everything in a six hundred page novel plays a part and leads up to what happens on the last pages.
Did the Boomers luck out and get a great storyline? Not going there.
I thought it was going to be a time machine. But no. It was some dorky big wheeled disaster looking for a place to happen slingshotting sweet octogenarians into space.
Boomer and proud of it. The funny thing about a millenial insulting a Boomer by calling him/her a boomer is that in just a very little while, the millenial will be in the boomer shoes. The one thing millenials and other younger gens don't have is wisdom. It would be a funny thing to watch once they face their own reality.
Remember, although the boomers did not coin the phrase, "don't trust anyone over 30," (I think it was more of a beatnik thing) they certainly repeated it. I don't know that anyone is very wise in their youth.
I think the generation gap was wider between the boomers and their parents than in any previous generation.
I'm at the very tail end of the boomers. I just hope that Social Security won't be depleted by the time I'm old enough to collect it.
If we aged backwards, when we reached childhood we would go around saying “you know, my kids were right.“
There’s a lot of wise people that are nine years old 15 years old 30 years old and 80 years old. I’m interested in listening to all of them.
I don’t see OK Boomer as an insult. To meet its just something some people say in passing as they decide whether or not to take on the challenges of their life.
Boomer here. A few days ago, I hit 70 1/2 when I am required to start taking withdrawals out of my IRA. Thing is, I started doing it last January....heh heh heh.
My grown children, especially my youngest (who is now 37) constantly remind me that I should be thankful that they are all paying social security taxes so that I can keep getting a social security check. NONE of them expect social security to be around (at least in its current form) when they are retirement age.
Hey, I know we thought we were "all that" back in our youth. After all, everyone kept telling us we were. Weren't we going to usher in the second coming or something? <snort>