I’ve always known I’m different, unique, and special. But I’m not the only one. There’s a crew of us that are hands-down special!
Are you one of us?
(I’ve updated the list I found online…)
They call us ”The Elderly.”
We were born in the 40-50-60’s – true boomers.
We grew up in the 50-60-70’s.
We studied in the 60-70-80’s.
We were dating in the 60-70-80-90’s.
We married and discovered the world in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
We venture into the 70-80-90’s.
We stabilized in the 2000s.
We got wiser in the 2010s.
And now? We are going firmly through and beyond 2020.
Turns out we’ve lived through EIGHT different decades…
TWO different centuries…
TWO different millennia…maybe…it depends on your numbering view. Do we start from zero or one?
We have gone from the telephone with an operator for long-distance calls to video calls to anywhere in the world.
We have gone from slides to YouTube, from vinyl records to online music, from handwritten letters to email and Whats App.
We played outside till it got dark, but now we entertained ourselves more sedately.
We invented things from Lincoln logs, Tinker toys, and the like.
From live events on the radio (Cassius Clay, Grand Ole Opry) to black and white TV, color TV, 3D + HD TV, and beyond!
We went to Video stores and owned libraries of things to listen to and watch, and now we watch and listen totally online.
We experienced the first humans in space and to the moon. We watched launches of spacecraft still flying out of our solar system – exfinity and beyond!
Making a quarter was big business. Hamburgers could be had 6 for a dollar, and Penny candy filled the sack for those long road trips.
Vacations were of the driving kind, and family homes were often the destination.
We got to know the first computers, punch cards, and floppy disks, and now we have megabytes and gigabytes on our smartphones and enormous terabyte storage in the cloud.
Cut-off shorts were popular when our jeans quit at the knees. Then polyester trousers, Oxfords, flares, leisure suits & blue jeans.
We dodged infantile paralysis, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis, swine flu, and COVID-19.
We rode skates, tricycles, bicycles, skateboards, mopeds, gas or diesel cars, and now we drive hybrids or electric.
We’ve been through a lot, but what a great life we’ve had!
They could describe us as “exennials”; people who were born in that world of the fifties, who had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.
We’ve kind of “Seen-It-All”!
Our generation has lived through and witnessed more than any other in every dimension of life.
It is our generation that has adapted to “CHANGE.”
A big round of applause to all the members of a very special generation, which will be UNIQUE.
