i was eating when i started thinking of something and a quite natural thought entered into my head: why would i care what people half my age think?

i think that this is something very different than what most of us have grown up around, but i don't think it's a fleeting thought. rather, i think that the boomer obsession with youth may turn out to be the anomaly.

i've never been in a world where there are more young people than old people; there have always been more old people, they have always had the power, they have always had the money and they have always made the decisions. i have not been conditioned to look to young people to make decisions - and that is progress. the premise is absurd. we're lucky we survived that bottleneck.

i didn't sing my generation.

i think that gen x is going to actually look forward to being old. that's a big change. no anti-aging creams, no fountains of youth - we're too cynical. or do we know better? we're going to be cranky. we're going to look down on the millenials until the day that we die. and we're going to enjoy it.

i don't care what people half my age think, i don't feel bad about it and i don't expect it to ever change.