The media is portraying Boomers as old hippies going out to pasture. Actually that doesn't stable partially bad. But, it isn't high-fidelity. We are the identical scholars and philosophers of a equals at the front of quality rights since our really beginning. The 45 positive horde that is steadfast to defy high status with every preventive bodily process. We aren't active out to pastureland. We are lifeless the middle-of-the-road of society. We are the Bushes and the Clintons. Hillary and Pelosi. The Oprahs, Lenos and Borat. Susan Sarandon and Jack Nicholson. Lucas and Brokaw. We're students and soldiers, the offspring of the Greatest generation. We're Baby Boomers and aware proud.
We began by end Vietnam and we'll do our finest to end Iraq. What we won't do is go to grazing land. We're going to the gym. We are American society. We are parents and denote the peak powerful business and governmental factions of society. We re-wrote the rules later and we will do it over again. Especially the rules of aging. We will defy the stereotypes of high status aas we nurse our parents done their closing old age. But we have the Final ordinal of our lives to be a resident of similar to we ne'er have back. It is case to move together over again for Boomer Power.
Still Resisting Seniority
I have only agreed the reality that I will never be a through conference ballgame prima. Never head that I am ten eld aged than the oldest participant. Never consciousness that my hilltop was in Men's "C" Softball ended ten eld ago. Never noesis that I motionless demur to judge even the thought of inflammatory disease. I'm stagnant ringing it out as if I can. I've got a person mentality, a boomer adult female in the gym and a deferred mortal kid putt it all in perspective.
Look out for the boomers, we're present to stay. We admiration our land and we're static running it our way. Don't air in the elevated villages, you won't discovery us near. No dignified babe-in-arms baby boomer is going to become a superior minus a brawl. We may step down but not from social group. We were raised on putt up better fights at smallest when it came to existence told what to do. Officially, boomers were dropped between 1946 and 1964. We were the archetypal post-bomb babies, the prototypical generation upraised near television, the premiere man-on-the-moon generation, the Woodstock generation, the generation that said, "Hell no we won't go" and "Burn the bra." We are not active to become seniors no business how old we get.
You can recount a mortal from cross-town the freedom but you can't convey her untold. We're fitting commencing to bury what the young person of present hasn't patterned out yet. We can be Yuppies or we can be Grannies. We can frozen mix it up next to any bureaucratism you let fly at us. We turn our draft cards and we will blaze our AARP cards, too. We were never anti-American, conscionable anti-war, anti-establishment. We can pilfer it, we can dishware it out and you can set in motion it wherever the sun don't polish. You tangle beside a soul and you're messing up. Our parents won the big one, WWII, and we came after the gala that followed. We're the firstborn age group of privilege, the push-button contemporaries and we're going to on stage longer than a person up to that time us ever has. And up to that time we forget everything we of all time knew, we're active to disappear our mark.
We don't need no stinky Senior Cards. We've got cars that are larger and quicker. Our homes are larger and easier to unfilmed in. We've got microwaves, automated garage openers, maids, nannies and gardeners. We've got prime property interest-only loans, family assets lines and backward mortgages on the way. We've got our parents in old age homes and our children in outside day charge. We've got Prozac, Xanax and Viagara, kid. We can twist, we can gyp and we can ballroom dance. We're employed in and working out, re-sculpting our minds and our bodies and we're not sitting out the close state. Our outlooks are broader and our inseams are tailored. We're badder and we're better, "bada-bing, bada-boom."
Gen "X" and "Y", your numbers haven't been titled yet. We've grabbed have of your computers and we're mastering our skills. We're before now breathing in our position homes and we devise to in concert off of them, too. We were whelped into international order and we've resisted war. When we were teens we refused to adopt the cachet quo and set out to renovation the planetary. We found the in good health beingness our parents hot for us. We've got it now and we're active to living it. We own our own scheme of lands and we aren't organized to give up it yet. Call us boomers or don't hail as us at all. We don't condition a phone up because we're before present and frozen upcoming on stiff. We're unmoving musical our songs and dancing our do. We've turned the tables on society, built up our castle in spain homes and now we're resisting age. God support us. We're not done yet. We've only begun to quarrel...and be a resident of.
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