Discussion with my parents and grandparents on Saturday

[xiphias]

We were talking about a friend who's joining a medical practice owned by a doctor who's in his early nineties and still practicing.

My grandmother says, "Sure, but, really, ninety is more like what seventy used to be. But, I have to admit, once you hit eighty, you really don't feel as young as you used to."

Me: "What does that mean? You can't pull all-nighters anymore? You can't stay up drinking tequila shots all night and still go to class in the morning like you did when you were seventy-five?"

My grandfather: "Yeah, something like that."

Me: "What I WILL say is that we GenX'ers are the first generation in history who are hitting middle age before our parents are. . . "

Comments

[bradhicks.livejournal.com]

Cumulative trauma. Compared to us, the Boomers had it pretty damned good.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Vietnam? Dead friends on the TV? Beat up friends at the Democratic convention in Chicago? Political assassinations, one right after another? And all the hard-earned retirement money we had saved through the years is now gone because of this economy. I agree that times are hard now, but it was no picnic when I was growing up - and all the difficulties that hurt the younger generation hurt us as well. The percentage of people in this country who have it "easy" is very small. We all do the best we can.

[felis-sidus.livejournal.com]

As the saying goes, "The good old days, weren't."

They were better than the good even older days, though!

[roamin-umpire.livejournal.com]

This is a fabulous conversation...