03-14-2017, 11:57 AM
(03-10-2017, 10:22 PM)gabrielle Wrote: I like Boomers a lot more now that they are getting older. I used to dislike them when I was young, but maybe it's really that I just don't like middle-aged people. Now that I am one myself, I know it can be a rough time; the perks of youth have fled and the responsibilities have piled on. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy--or sometimes an asshole who descends into a destructive middle age crisis (I know a few people who have). But get a little older and you can mellow out and enjoy life again.
But anyway, because of all the abuse they are getting lately from some of the younger males on these forums, I want to use this thread as an opportunity to say I appreciate the older Boomers here and enjoy reading their posts, which are generally intelligent and articulate. Some of their detractors, in contrast, spout incoherent, typo-ridden messes, and others are glib and insulting without saying much of any value.
I can't help in many ways feel as though we might have a better, or at least a kinder, gentler world today had the Boomer stuck with their youthful idealism throughout their lives? Does society's recipe not allow for that? As a Boomer cusper myself, I have had much disdain for the road most, or at least a significant portion, of my generation travelled. Seemed to be thm who caused much of our current malaise. When you try to build a life on rocky planes you will inevitably get unstable bridges. That is where we're at today, not only due to crumbling physical infrastructre, but that applied to the society as well. If we could remove the rocks, imagine what could happen. Yet, it will take effort, yet it will be well worth it.
