Each generation talks about how great their generation was. My great grandparents talked about what it was like during the depression and how men were men and women were women.

My grandparents told stories of presidents that were icons and family time around the table.

My parents hid from us kids that they sneaked around with their cigarettes rolled up in their pants legs and had bonfires on the beach.

So what about my generation?

In our generation we watched TV shows that were about an alien named Mork and two good-looking wholesome boys that never meant any harm. But now, all grown up we have television that can no longer outdo the drama of real life.

We are the generation that had only 3 channels but as adults we have unlimited Hulu,Roku, Netflix, Disney plus, Paramount, Amazon prime and YouTube TV.

We grew up with a party line and a rotary phone with a long squirrelly cord but presently have a “2 year”, until the end of time contract, with a phone that cost more than my first car.

I can remember waiting for a movie to come around to our small town theater when I was a kid….then when we waited for it come out on VHS or DVD…and finally for it to come to REDBOX. Now, we can rent it and stream it immediately online before it is even released.

It is a new world of convenience and immediate satisfaction. Its a game I play every day and so do you. But lets not forget our generation.

What will my generation say?

That we are ones that learned to work an iPhone? That we (finally!) figured out how to “CC” someone in an email and attach a file. That we can honestly say that we grew up with the absolute best of television. And when we got to see a movie..it was ..EPIC!!!!!!

Our “Netflix and chill” was laying outside on a quilt listening to the mix tape it took us all day to record.

We really were country when country was George Jones, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard.

And they WERE cool!!

So,be proud of your time to shine. Go to that memory vault and give your children and their children advice that they will never really need, about making sure to wind their watch, or place orders before December 1st to insure delivery. Every generation gets to lament about their own time in the sun. To tell tall tales to grandkids about that time we had to walk to school….in the snow,….uphill….20 miles…..carrying a load of firewood….

or something like that.