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Madame Savant's avatar

Oh this resonates.

Born millennial, grew up alongside my gen X parents and relate more to people their age than my own. Can’t stand Boomers, never have. Adored my grandparents, the Silents, and wanted to be them when I grew up. The biggest compliment my husband has received from his MIL (who’s never liked him) is how he’s just like her FIL, my Grandfather.

Gen Z? I love it all. They made a lot of the style and fashion I tried to piece together from early-aughts-garbage popular and accessible, down to the center part and curtain bangs every stylist tried to convince me would look stupid (in truth they suit me perfectly).

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Laura B Writing in the Shadows's avatar

Honestly, I don’t really think about generations. All I know is whatever one I’m “supposed” to be chewed me up and spit me out... and now I'm here 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Castor K Pollux's avatar

I never understood all these differences in generations other than when we’re born and age. I’m a millennial I guess. But It’s strange since I remember tvs we had to get up to change the channel on and VHS tapes 😆

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Sara da Encarnação's avatar

Gen X... I must be that if I ever payed any attention to classifications. As I don’t, I’m just... out of time.

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Laziliez's avatar

Gen-X here, and I feel the same. As you wrote, the generations are not an accurate categorisation of people.

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S. Imperov's avatar

I never understood this whole "generation" thing. The Silent Generation, Gen Z, Gen X what even is that? Just another way to take millions of people and put them into one convenient category so a "marketologist" can figure out what products will sell better?

We’re unique, contradictory, complicated creatures, and yet we’re always inventing new ways to stereotype ourselves. Astrology sorts us by constellations, sociology sorts us by generations, and eventually everyone gets sorted by gross income.

These stereotypes shape us. We become cardboard boxes, each conveniently pre-set for whatever products the market needs to put inside. We are used until we are pressed, folded, and ready for recycling.

Fight the system, be unique, change your shape so the marketers will be out of breath trying to find you a star-shaped coffin.

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Dipti  Vyas's avatar

What a sharp and self-aware meditation on generational identity and personal dislocation! Your use of multiple generational lenses is both funny and poignant highlighting the tension between inherited cultural frameworks and individual experience. The final lines, reflecting on growth and being “lost”, leave a haunting, introspective resonance that lingers beyond the playful observations, grounding the piece in genuine existential inquiry. I wouldn’t have expected anything less…

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Sambuca's avatar

Gen Xer here. :) And proud. :D

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

Nice.

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Marissa Purdum's avatar

I’m sure being a teacher helps with becoming a chameleon of the generations. I can’t say I relate fully like everyone else, but I can’t say I understand… not feeling fully like you fit into one category.

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

Fair enough.

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AsukaHotaru's avatar

Haha, love this—time-traveling through generations like a boss! Silent, lost, millennial, Gen Z… basically a human multiverse and still standing. Respect.

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

Thank you.

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Assemblywoman Debra Mazzarelli's avatar

Boomer through and through…don’t know enough about the labeled generations… but I must admit I am a fighting boomer, a protesting boomer, a big mouth feminist boomer, a pr-choice and pro-equal rights for all boomer! But I am also a tired boomer, re-tired…

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

I'm tired, but I'm not (re) yet.

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Assemblywoman Debra Mazzarelli's avatar

BTW…I don’t plan on ever growing up. I started aging backward last year!

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

What is growing up?

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Cailin & Eirian's avatar

Most of us that had to grow up fast...oh first I have no idea what I am some accuse me of being old I was born in 65 I haven't touched old yet I don't think....most say I don't look my age and as I started to say most of us that grew up fast later don't grow up ....we know responsibilities and respect but every chance I get I don't act my age I let the kid that couldn't play play.....so when people say wow you don't look your age I smile and say that's cause I don't act it......🙂

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

There you go.

I just don't act it.

I'll use that.

Thanks.

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Cailin & Eirian's avatar

Your welcome glad I could help ...🙂

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Danielle Nadine Pierre's avatar

How many spoken languages do you know?

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

One fully. Two very well. Two decently.

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Danielle Nadine Pierre's avatar

Whoa! Nice.

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

You?

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Asma's avatar

Oh yes you are, you are great.

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

At what?

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Asma's avatar

At whatever your doing here and many other things!

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

HHAHA

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Erin Pyper, MSW's avatar

Everyone has a different way of communicating. I think that part is true.

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

Agreed.

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🧿Merveye's avatar

As a milli I feel this

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Hawtorn V. Rabot's avatar

You and your decimal system.

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🧿Merveye's avatar

🤣🤣🤣

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