MINDLESS MUSINGS

Reckon it’s time to start a new thread. Feels like I have been trying to squeeze a few ideas into some categories where they don’t quite fit. This one will be a little more random in some ways, but it will basically be what you expect from the title. I was born and a kid in the 70s, a teen through the 80s and a young adult during the 90s.

Through all those stages I heard some old timer start a story with “when I was your age…” and every time their age seemed long off. I am now older than most of those storytellers were when they spoke to me and many of them are kaput.

Nowadays I find myself beginning many a yarn with those very same words and am often amused. So many times, I’ve used a pop culture reference from my youth and witnessed the blank stare of disconnection from the youngster I am conversing with. I smile thinking about when it will be their turn. I am also astounded when I consider that the gap between them and their younger friend will probably be even wider.

I was born into the final quarter of the 20th Century. A time where technological change was beginning to speed up. The leaps and bounds made during that century compared to all human history were amazing. Even more astonishing is the advances that took place in the first quarter of this century. The evolving innovation seems to be accelerating at a pace that was unthinkable when I was kid.

I do not plan to embark on a “my generation is better than yours” spiel. I really want to express my amazement at how much things have changed in my lifetime. I hope this one will be fun, but I make no promises.