Okay, I'm ninety. My brain plays Bridge online and if the cards are right, my partner and I win at this Almost Chess game. I shop for groceries for my "scratch" cooking, I do my own finances, I sold my car but have a license in case I need it, I have no health problems, I avoid pain pills even though the body I ride around in has natural pain. I move about just like anyone else does: hear the news and see the show. I love my past, present and my future. I live in THIS generation that considers itself a letter of the alphabet rather than what is accomplised daily. I live today and I am part of today and all that is happening on earth today. I, and all of us, belong to Gen Now. When I hear pod casts that separate people into generations by age, it annoys me. It appears in this false gen theory that whomever is an age IS and the rest, WERE. Not true. We all contribute to now, not then. Let's look at this fact. In my time on the planet, I was always the "now" gen. It had nothing to do with a time period divided by human age, into an era where it took credit when only a few greatly contributed to the arts and sciences, and it still doesn't. We are all part of this, or the Now Gen by means that are not direct but by paying our taxes, listening and participating in every day life. We are part of it all Now because we are not of the past, we are of the present, and every single day, we are the Now Gen. As someone of my years, my widom of actually having lived during certain periods that were miraculous or horrific, made me a part of them. I felt them, I gave to them in my small way and you yours as you do also now by simply being here. And now. Time belongs to no one, certainly not to the old or to the young. Time moves as the world turns and it can't be stopped and sliced up in any way that seems more important than another because no one knows what time will bring in the next second. I shudder when I see and hear words spoken that frame me as being aged in a negative way: useless and past, rather than thanking me for over those years, time, paying my taxes that supported what is was happening in that "now". I think "does the world not know, I am here, I am human, I matter even though I am very old". "Does the world yruly believe because I move slowly, am grey, have skin lines and need to rest, that I am not part of this vital world just as every single human being that breathes today is, the now?" I am this generation until the moment I die. I am what all the world's humanity or gen is: the Now Gen.
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