Originally Posted by
Karen
According to that list, I'm a Boomer, but seeing as I got none of the "benefits" or attitudes Boomers got, I count myself as a Gen-Xer - born in the second half of 1964, and don't thing a few months is enough to make me part of one generation over another!
I understand that. In a lot of ways, I identify with the Boomer generation, too, even though I'm clearly an X'er by birth. It's because my parents were much older than my friends parents. They were both in their 40's when I was born.
So even though all my friends parents went to Woodstock, let us watch Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar with them and did the Hustle ... my parents remembered the Great Depression, were raised with no electricity or running water, and did not have a car for most of their childhoods. VASTLY different morals and values were imparted, believe me.
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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