Hope I Die Before I Get Old...
...though some would argue I'm already there, O Reader. For to-day is my day of birth... 35 years ago, baby me came out screaming for vengeance in an Idaho hospital. Welcome to Generation X, little spud boy...have fun finding that real tomato.
So, in riffing a Who lyric for the subject line of to-day's missive, it occurred to me that my generation is getting close to taking the reins. Pretty soon men and women of my generation will be getting elected to public office. Some may already be there. Putting legislation in play. Making laws.
We will, in effect, be the new bosses.
And, stickin' with the Who theme, will we be the same as the old bosses? Will we buck the system, and actually make things better/different/safer/sounder/nicer? Will the best of our generation take the helm, or will we put a bunch of people who wanna be just like their parents in power? Will it be status quo, or the new wave?
I'd like to think we'll do right by our peers, but after growing up watching our parents give up, grow old, and sell out... how many of us will have the will to fight the entropy that hangs over our heads? These were the people that gave our grandparents the finger, demanded change, screamed for a better world...then turned around and made Gran'pa and Gramma look like pikers.
What a drag it is getting old, indeed.
...though some would argue I'm already there, O Reader. For to-day is my day of birth... 35 years ago, baby me came out screaming for vengeance in an Idaho hospital. Welcome to Generation X, little spud boy...have fun finding that real tomato.
So, in riffing a Who lyric for the subject line of to-day's missive, it occurred to me that my generation is getting close to taking the reins. Pretty soon men and women of my generation will be getting elected to public office. Some may already be there. Putting legislation in play. Making laws.
We will, in effect, be the new bosses.
And, stickin' with the Who theme, will we be the same as the old bosses? Will we buck the system, and actually make things better/different/safer/sounder/nicer? Will the best of our generation take the helm, or will we put a bunch of people who wanna be just like their parents in power? Will it be status quo, or the new wave?
I'd like to think we'll do right by our peers, but after growing up watching our parents give up, grow old, and sell out... how many of us will have the will to fight the entropy that hangs over our heads? These were the people that gave our grandparents the finger, demanded change, screamed for a better world...then turned around and made Gran'pa and Gramma look like pikers.
What a drag it is getting old, indeed.
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J