The Lucky Generation Born Before Sex Changes

Are you in sixties? Worried and shrunken to cope with the generation gap? Don’t worry. You belong to the greatest generation in the human history. You can boast yourself that you have seen the most which the generations after you couldn’t have come across. You are lucky to witness the haves and have-nots of modern life.

You were Born Before Sex Changes

You were certainly born before the difference between the sexes were discovered but you surely were bon before sex change. You made do with what you had, and were the last generation that was so dumb to think you needed a husband to have a baby! You got married first and then only lived together. But how quaint can we be?

You are Older than so many Modern discoveries

Your Medicines were more Natural

Be happy that you were born before the birth of penicillin, polio shots, contact lenses and before the birth of so many antibiotics. When you were born the world hadn’t heard the frightening word AIDS and even not much about cancer. For you AIDS were helpers in the principal’s office and not a deadly disease. Pills, contraceptives and abortion were not so common as today. You were not scared by the CAT Scans, CT Scans, MRIs, heart bypass surgeries, organ transplants, and gender transformations.

Your Food was Excellent

You ate organic foods in those days and were safe from chemicals and artificial adulterations. Junk food, fast food, frozen food, cappuccino, and what not of today were not spoiling your bellies and making you obese. You thought fast food was only what you ate during Lent. Bread and butter were delivered at your doorsteps. Microwave and convection ovens hadn’t reached you yet and pot was something in which you cooked. Pizzas, McDonalds and instant coffee were unheard of for you.

You had more Exercise

Television, DVDs, audiocassettes, compact discs, video games, cell phones, computer, mouse and internet didn’t hold you back as couch potatoes. You did move about in lot of exercises and games. Your brain had more rest and relaxation.

You enjoyed more Silence

Your ears weren’t deafened by noise pollution from vehicles, audio equipments, boom boxes, FM radios tape decks and ear piercing instruments. Your Rock music was only a grandma’s lullaby.

Your Entertainment

Fribees, internet chatting, sex games, nude clubs were not even dreamt in your days. For you time-sharing meant togetherness-not computers and condominiums.

You Good Old Days

You were on the scene when there were five and ten-cent stores, where you could really buy things for five and ten cents. Isaly’s sold ice cream cones for a nickel or a dime. For one nickel you could ride a streetcar or trolley, and buy a Pepsi or enough stamps to mail one letter and two postcards. You could buy a new Chevy coupe for 600 bucks. A pity, too because gasoline was 11 cents a gallon.

Your Chores

In your days closets were for keeping clothes, not for “coming out of.” You had no day-care centers. You did almost all manually including mowing grass. Still you had plenty of time for your rest. You didn’t have heaps of waste polluting the air.

Your Society

You were lucky to be born before house-husbands, gay rights, computer dating, dual careers and computer marriages. You might have never thought of man marrying a man and a woman marrying a woman.

Your High Morals

The virtues of self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, friendship, work, courage, perseverance, honesty, loyalty and faith were in your repertoire. You learned moral values at an early age, knowing what was right and wrong, good and bad.

You Witnessed Advance

You can consider the changes you have witnessed. You have today computers, camcorders, GPS, On Star, hybrid cars, radar, Ipods, Blackberries, Palm Pilots, credit cards, ATMs, split atoms, lasers, electric blankets and air conditioners. For you a “chip” was a piece of wood; hardware meant hardware and “software” wasn’t even a word for you. But today men have walked on the moon and reached Mars.

Really You are a Great Generation

Of course, you were a part of the Greatest Generation, the generation that endured the Great Depression and World War II, about which Tom Brokaw has written in his best seller book, “The Greatest Generation.” Your generation had been well beyond their years and added greatly to the world which can never be forgotten.

Well done, you have survived!

No wonder you are now so confused and there is such a generation gap today!