I’ve been on this site for 3 years, going on to 4 at some time not far off. I’ve become accustomed to the ebbs and flows, the waves, the troughs, the lost footing, the finding comfort in the shared islands.
I don’t know if it’s just me, the journey, or a sign of the times, but now I find it all, everything I have read on this site, all of this experience, so very little and diminished and so focused on what has been lost rather than gained.
There seems so little empathy underneath what is being posted, no understanding, no recognition beyond what it means to the individual. I have to ask: is this a sign of what is to come, the boomer generation and their obsession with personal satisfaction, or is it just me moving beyond my sphere of experience, my own little bubble. I’m not trying to be all knowing, a smart arse, I’m just confused.
It seems like there was a thread to follow when I was young, I had my grandad and grandma and they had a little life, a pension, a garden, a life with us. And now it’s just about when to go on holiday, which solo group to join, which cruise to take, how to keep continuing the life of privilege and how to keep enjoying it. It seems so alien, so outside of experience. I have to say I’m really blown away by the attitude of the generations in front of me, the expectation of privilege extending through loss, the ‘why did this happen we had so many plans’,’ its not fair’, ‘why me’, ‘why him’, ‘why her’.
Why not?
I’d really like to know what people think about this, that their generations time has come, that you will all start dying, that it isn’t how you thought it would turn out, extending into the forever. How does that shock of the end feel, does it add or subtract? I ask this from a position of curiosity, a generation that did not have what you had, I wonder, as ever, what it is like to be you.
