mcgrew's Journal: My Generation 21st Century

People try to put us d-down
Hard for us to get around
Things kids say sound awful c-c-cold
'cause I didn't die before I got old

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

Why don't you all f-fade away
I can't dig what kids all s-s-say
I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-g-generation

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

Why don't you all fu-fu-fu go away
Forgot what I was going to say
I'm not trying to cause a b-big s-s-sensation
I'm just talkin' 'bout my g-g-generation

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

People try to put us d-down
Hard for us to g-g-get around
Things they say sound awful c-c-cold
I didn't die before I got old

This is my generation
This is my generation, baby

who'd really want to

[Bill Dawg]

I can't dig what kids all s-s-say

Younguns are, generally speaking, only wise in the eyes of other younguns. For the most part, why would I care what young people have to say. How much could I learn, from people who know a lot less than my peers and my elders. Possibly a little, I suppose. But it would mean wading through a lot of non-wisdom. (And then how much of what they are right about am I particularly interested in.)

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[mcgrew]

You won't gain much wisdom from the young, but they often have information I lack.

Isn't it better than the alternative?

[BarbaraHudson]

'cause I didn't die before I got old

As someone who has just this week ended another 3-month depression that made the alternative look tempting again, all I can say is that there is one good side - the world looks new and fresh again, like when I was a kid and everything was full of wonder. So this leaves me with one question -

At what age are are you old?

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[Bob_Who]

Recently, after news that a friend of mine had passed away quite suddenly with a heart attack, it occurred to me that I have outlived a few friends that are younger than me. I am grateful as the eldest of five children that my aging divorced parents are still living well, healthy and in control of their lives. Nearly octogenarians, they never got old. Not yet, at least. Conversely, my mother had once said of my paternal grandfather, that he got old at 40. I'm not sure why she thought that, he was alway

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[BarbaraHudson]

Unfortunately, the wayback machine wasn't much help either. Maybe it's just pining for the fjords. :-)

Some people definitely get old fast. My parents sure did. All my sisters are younger than me, but one of them ... well ... even at 42 she was told she had the insides of someone twice her age. When I was helping in the convalescent home, her doctor, physiotherapist, and the nurse all asked her if I was her daughter. She looked that decrepit. Decades of anorexia, drugs, a couple of strokes, and vascular dem

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[Bob_Who]

Its back up now!

http://you.regettingold.com/ [regettingold.com]

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[BarbaraHudson]

Cool! So I'm getting old, but on the bright side, 91% of the people born the same day I was are still alive. And the odds are excellent that I'll see Iceland's election of the Pirate Party as the governing party in Iceland this fall. Who could have predicted that before the Panama Papers? Remember the curse about living in interesting times? These are VERY interesting times :-)

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[Bob_Who]

;-)

Yep. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro...

- HST

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[mcgrew]

My grandmother said that my Uncle Dan was born an old man.

Who?

[Bob_Who]

Oh, you meant the other Bob.