Generational Gaps
Have you ever noticed the huge generational gaps? Danielle and I are 2 1/2 years apart in age and the pair of us are on two separate friges of two different generations. I had the end of the 80's, she had the 90's. She played Pokemon. I was at the age where it was typically too old. I had a nano pet (she did too but wasn't as interested). Jeff turned 16 and was given a stereo for his car. It had all of the same features as mine. It had the USB port, auxillary and iPod set up. But his did not have a CD player. My CD player is a default for me. I have about 6 CD's in my car that are a collection of my absolute favorite songs. They're for when my flash drives are either accidently in the house, misplaced or not what songs I want to listen to. But primarily, it is my iPod that I listen to. (rarely do we listen to the radio because the antena on my car is broken so stations aren't great quality) Jeff's generation is all about the technology. I mean, their house was broken into and within days, they had to go out with the insurance money to buy new mac's, xbox, wii and the like. Danielle's always been a gamer. I can only play frogger, harry potter (if Danielle will be a partner) or DDR--with the exception of the wii. I like playing all of the wii sports and dance games (i'm horrible at racing).
I'm not reading into it and not making a big deal out of it. But it is crazy how different we really are. Maybe it has to do with our friends. That might have a big factor. I don't know.
Today's lunch topic at work was how much things have changed. How TV's use to not have remote controls and how the remote controls first looked was highly rememberable for my team (I had an old TV in my bedroom when I was really little that I watched PBS on in black and white. It had no remotes). And how the cars did not have automatic windows. Our cars always did but my dad will always tell the story of when I was little and he picked me up in my granddad's truck. I was completely clueless about how to roll down the window since it was a crank.
But I'm sure in the future, our children will not remember cars without automatic locks, vans that do not have TV's, computers that do not have internet access (or cell phones for that matter! Remember your first cell phone? Now we're inseperable without them. Same with the internet! Remember dial up?)...
Anyway, there's going to be a lot of changes in our childhoods than our childrens' childhoods...