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You know you are getting old when:
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In other words, "slip on" shoes; no laces, buckles, or other closure fasteners to deal with. Yeah, I can go along with that. But I do wonder what the motivation is. Comfort? Convenience? Laziness? Arthritic pain avoidance? Sudden Onset Knot Phobias?
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Coincidentally, I just bought a pair of Birkenstocks this week. I had forgotten how comfortable those things are.
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But will you wear these technically unhealthy outside your home?
I mean, generations of the older Germans wrecked their feet with the classic Birkenstock style pantolettes. Physiotherapists would never wear them underways, Orthopedists say, they are harmful on 99%.
I wore mine always at thome, without having the knowledge twenty years ago.
But will you wear these technically unhealthy outside your home?
I mean, generations of the older Germans wrecked their feet with the classic Birkenstock style pantolettes. Physiotherapists would never wear them underways, Orthopedists say, they are harmful on 99%.
I wore mine always at thome, without having the knowledge twenty years ago.
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Anyone remember Earth Shoes from back in the 70s?
The sales pitch was that shoes have been wrong for generations by making the heels higher than the toes; not a part of normal human physiology. As you can see, these soles are higher in the front, which allegedly returned the wearer's gait to that of a more natural state. I don't know if any of that was true, but the pair I had were as comfortable as they were ugly.
The sales pitch was that shoes have been wrong for generations by making the heels higher than the toes; not a part of normal human physiology. As you can see, these soles are higher in the front, which allegedly returned the wearer's gait to that of a more natural state. I don't know if any of that was true, but the pair I had were as comfortable as they were ugly.
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Bah, humbug. They are sandals. I will die of liver disease or heart disease or skin cancer LONG before I die of fallen arches. Go away. Birkenstocks are so damned comfortable.
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Yes! I had a pair in high school. I think it was during my John Denver phase. For a brief moment, it was cool to be a geek.
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...when you realize that the reason so much of the world no longer seems to make sense is not that there's something wrong with the world, but that the world is no longer about *you.* I was talking the other day to an associate in her mid-forties who was expressing puzzlement at the doings of "zoomers," and grumbling how she "doesn't get these kids today." Well, of course you don't. Their culture isn't intended for you. Their marketing isn't intended for you. The world today isn't intended for you.
There comes a time, usually around the time you hit your late forties or early fifties, when you notice that people of your own age cohort are no longer the focus of popular culture, mass marketing, or mainstream politics, and you have only two options -- you can resent this, and spend the rest of your life sinking into a morass of impotent cloud-shouting about "KIDS TODAY" or you can simply acknowledge that the same thing has happened to and will happen to every generation in its own turn. The world is going to move on, whether you want it to or not, and the same thing will happen, in time, to all the Kids Today. Realizing and accepting that, I find, can save a lot of frustration. They're not living in your world, after all. You're living in theirs.
There comes a time, usually around the time you hit your late forties or early fifties, when you notice that people of your own age cohort are no longer the focus of popular culture, mass marketing, or mainstream politics, and you have only two options -- you can resent this, and spend the rest of your life sinking into a morass of impotent cloud-shouting about "KIDS TODAY" or you can simply acknowledge that the same thing has happened to and will happen to every generation in its own turn. The world is going to move on, whether you want it to or not, and the same thing will happen, in time, to all the Kids Today. Realizing and accepting that, I find, can save a lot of frustration. They're not living in your world, after all. You're living in theirs.
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You have just explained a conundrum Lizzie. Baby Boomers dominated the 1960's, not only was it their turn to be a young adult, there was rather a lot of them. They are often accused of being the most impatient, self-centred generation ever. Now, in old age, Boomers still behave like it's all about them, well maybe that's a bit harsh, but have you ever noticed how, in the middle of the morning or evening peak hours, they like to go out in their cars, just because they can?
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Now't new...
"What you are, we were, and what we are, you will be."
"What you are, we were, and what we are, you will be."
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Yes.
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Bah, humbug. They are sandals. I will die of liver disease or heart disease or skin cancer LONG before I die of fallen arches. Go away. Birkenstocks are so damned comfortable.
So are Crocs, and you will not catch me dead in those!
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54 years and 18 days. How long it took me to read the phrase "my John Denver phase"...
;-{ )
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There are vast numbers of sixtyish singer-songwriters who have performed on our stage who never emerged from their "John Denver Phase."
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Not so sure....as Boomers we still control much of the world's wealth so they might still be living in our world. But what ever....I ignore them and they ignore me....we get along great.
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Damn, I never realized it was ever a 'thing'
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One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh...
...The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done...
Ecclesiastes 1:4
I recall catching a train out of Chicago to look over the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana,
and once on campus walking around town and gown I noticed that this humongous campus was solely
occupied by teenagers. Hardly any adults twenty-five or older appeared on scene during my casual stroll.
A campus petri dish filled with adolescent specimen. I enrolled at the University of Illinois-Chicago
instead, where a more eclectic all inclusive age range Homo Sapien sampling could be found.
At twenty one after the war I felt somewhat aged but I also believed that kids were largely a boring lot.
Older adults had been my teachers through life, all the more so in recent past, and their experience
and knowledge far more interesting. About the time of my induction I began to realize there were
more important issues in life than baseball and girls, and I was becoming acquainted with older men
whom obviously possessed inner lives far beyond anything I ever experienced or could imagine.
Modern culture, insipid banality that it is focuses on youth-so be it. It doesn't bother me and I do not
envy youth; although I do exert some effort to block current cultural fare from mind.
What I consider far more disturbing is the present philosophic state of society, filled with asinine
beliefs, nihilism, moral relativity, and narcissism.
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Even at twenty, I never felt that it was ever "my world." At sixty six I'm happy to be fortunate enough just to be on the train of life: so many I knew have been capriciously pitched off earlier in the journey, before the scenery really becoming interesting.
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I've never had much use for most people my own age -- I only really have a couple of real-world friends in my age cohort, and a few here on the Lounge. I spent my childhood surrounded by people born in the 1900s and 1910s, and now, since they're all dead, I find myself much preferring the company of people born in the 1980s, 90s,and early 00's. I find that KIDS TODAY tend to be much more open in their views and willing to question their own beliefs than their parents, a generation with which I've been at odds since I was old enough to talk. And you'd be surprised hopw many of them are open to exploring the culture of The Era -- which, of course, I have made every effort to share with them. If you ever run into a millennial humming "I Say It's Spinach," there's a good chance they know me.
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