I generally roll my eyes at any "the new generation is a bunch of pussies!"
but this article made me chuckle:
Generation X is generally accepted to have been born in that sliver
of time between 1965 and 1980. What my teens didn’t know was that my
entire generation has been dismissed from day one, and what’s more we
don’t really care.
It seems that it has taken a global pandemic
for anyone to sing our praises ― to even call us by name. All of the
sudden folks are impressed by our remarkable resilience, our ability to
entertain ourselves for hours on end and our willingness to shelter in
place without whining.
Social
isolation is not only tolerable for us, Gen X requires a regular dose
of it to recharge our batteries. So while you might already be flipping
out, we are basking in the down time.
We once focused all our
attention on making mix tapes. Some of our best products took the entire
weekend to create. Now that’s dedication.
Gen
Xers have limited expectations too. We were completely satisfied to
play with our Pet Rocks (which was literally just a rock), or the
world’s first video game, Pong (literally a dot on the screen, moving
between two cursors). In other words, we
are pretty easily entertained.
So
when faced with the prospect of sheltering in place for an unspecified
number of weeks, Generation X knows for sure that we got this. Heck,
we’ve been training for a moment like this all our lives.
It might
feel like “the end of the world as we know it” ― but Generation X feels
fine. We have instantly become our nation’s unsung heroes. So watch and
learn people, watch and learn.
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