Always with these millennials. Millennials, what they don’t know. Digital youth nowdays, not before days when it was some other group of wide-eyes/hippies/apathetics or punks changing the language and music on us. Kids don’t know their history. Eeeeeeeesh–> I worry about the typecasting, though I do it too. Mid or Old folks sometimes also don’t know their history. Rewind the tape (oh no I’ve exact dated myself) but what I’m saying is every generation does it to the up-&-comers. Remember? Jean styles change and jean styles get judged. But I’m moving along —>
and sometimes when it’s dark I stop trying to step forward. I stop and listen to my self when I was 26 or 6. What I hear is plenty of lingo and confusion but also some wisdom. Fact is I can teach myself something from the past to the now/future like it’s weird I know but it’s reverse put-yourself-backology that works. Sure that younger guy was misinformed or not at all informed in tons of cases. He knew Ill Communication but was ill experienced likely in the middle of a bad lesson or choice, not scarred up enough yet. But he was also paying a different kind of attention and playing a different kind of game. Whoa it’s an odd soul sensation to know you might have actually known more back when you didn’t actually know more. It’s odd and weird and not very Gen X’y to acknowledge I was possibly better in the past. I acknowledge I was possibly better in the past. But it’s also possible that I can still go back while still moving forward and meet that young man/boy some spot in the middle and shake his hand with my hand and lend all my ears. Listen to his music and outlook and maybe show him a piece of the future. And it’s just possible enough that if I keep doing these little meetups I’ll be a little better right now. What we’re all trying, at any age.
