Entrance/exit to the 5th Avenue Central Park Subway Station
Autumn in New York City
"Generation X...We're the ones you see on the train every morning
staring at their own reflections wondering when we stopped being cool,
when teenagers became so damn young and where on earth
those rapidly spreading crows feet came from..."
Australia's leading business magazine, BRW, has published an excellent piece of writing by Jeanne-Vida Douglas about Generation X - the perpetual losers in life. I cringed when I read that opening line, but keep on going, as this is a must-read for all Gen Xers. It ends on a high, hopeful note. Don't pass this one by.
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2 comments:
I really enjoyed that article. I never looked at our circumstances that way--perpetually "too" something and always the underdog--but it's quite true. Maybe it's why Gen X-ers find Homer Simpson's "D'oh!" exclamation so funny...it is our existence. Every example mentioned in that article spontaneously triggered a D'oh! response in my mind. "Boomers had the sexual revolution...Gen X had the AIDS crisis...D'oh!" "Kaftans...Lycra..D'oh!" :-)
@FL CONFETTI - Of all the op eds like this I've read, this one really stuck with me more than any other. The part about twirling the cassettes to save battery juice. I loved that. You're so right about the "D'oh!" I'm going to be saying that all day now. You crack me up. Even when I was pregnant, the maternity clothes were clingy stretch fabric. Now, not even 2 1/2 years passed the birth of my last all the maternity clothes are flattering. Perpetually being messed with!!! The other part that got me - always too young, too old. Happy Birthday!
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