cool and youthful or ridiculous and immature
posted by kobayashi on July 16, 2001
or both? i've been wondering lately about this whole question. are we more youthful than our parents were, or just more adolescent. (this assumes your parents, like mine, weren't free thinkers or even pretending to be freethinkers by the time they were your age.)
my dad was a unitarian lay minister or something when he was in his twenties. but then by the time he was my age was reading the wall street journal on the train from scarsdale new york to manhattan to work his way corporate job for texaco every morning; voted strictly republican, and wore wingtips all the time.
meanwhile i'm split between worrying about my house's foundation and my son's virtually nonexistent college fund and learning to wheelie my new cruiser and wanting to get a copy of that killdozer lp phil was talking about. i just can't feature my dad learning to wheelie when i was four, and they were listening to schmaltzy muzaky crap on the radio by the time i can recall them listening to music at all.
my friend just bought a new skateboard and regularly goes out with other guys neighboring up to 40 years old to half pipes or whatever the hell they are and do all that sk8boarding shit.
i just don't know. and what does this mean about what we'll be doing when i'm 70, assuming we make it to 70?