Someone wrote that 2025 is as close to 1980 as 1980 was to 1935 which is to say there is a 45 year time gap between them.
I was born in the late sixties so by the time 1980 rolled around I had long since learned how to write in cursive and like most GenX kids had long been walking myself to and from school.
Had endless summer days in which my friends and I rode our bikes everywhere or took city buses all over the place.
1935 caught my eye because my folks were born in the early forties and so it sounds old. Though if my grandparents had become parents as soon as most of their contemporaries the folks would absolutely have shown up somewhere between ’35 and ’38.
In concept that could have meant that instead of being mid fifties I’d be in my sixties now and that sort of throws me a bit because life could have been so different.
Maybe I’d be retired now and not a decade away.
My baby is going to be 21 this year and doesn’t intend to get married or pregnant for a long chunk of time to go which is ok with me.
I have told my kids there is no rush and to remember who you end up marrying has a big impact upon the rest of your life so take a minute to figure out who you are before you hook up.
Anyhoo, I don’t have time for a long post tonight but figured this joint needed an update and that time gap caught my eye. Hell, I go back to work tomorrow after having taken some time off and I am sure the new kid will ask me again if I feel old because I was a 20th century baby.
I took him into the gym a while back and curled his body weight which cut down on some of the old man talk. Might have to bring him back because I can lat pull more than he weighs now too.
The kids say I have old man strength but I tell them it is just 40 plus years of lifting and good genes.
Happy New Year.
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