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Salute to the Younger Generation from Neanderthal

March 19, 2010

Some young folks seem to be wondering about us, the older generation of their parents, thosesurvivors from the 60s and 70s, how on earth we ever managed to get this old and make it this far

around, I mean, being such losers and all, with our loser hair-cuts, our loser clothes, and why, we

didnt even have cell phones back then, no ipods or computer games.

To be honest, sometimes I wonder myself how on earth I managed to ever get this old. Especially

since we were lacking a few other things our younger generation touts, such as their undying self-confidence, not doubting for a second that the world is theirs for the asking or less, a snap of the

fingers, along with the solid assurance that they have all the time in the world, and why, by the time

theyre going to be really old, like in their 30s, they might have even invented some stuff to enable

them to live forever

We didnt have any of that, since we were always scared stiff that the inventions ofourparents

generation were going to see to it that the world was going to come flying around our ears any day.The only dweebs who thought that time was on their side in our generation were the Rolling Stones.

So, I guess the secret of our survival against all these odds was that we simply made do with what wehad. We were more or less happy for what each day brought, because, well, it may have well been our

last, and we didnt miss any ipods or cell phones or gameboys because we never even knew you

needed to have these things in order to survive. As they say, sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Im afraid we did have a few qualities, which, granted, may have been a little antiquated (since we

were still way back on the first few steps of evolution compared to that quantum leap of

enlightenment we all experienced during the first decade of the 21st century), such as that ancientthing called appreciation (Im sure its not even in the dictionary anymore), and oh, yes, that one was

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really a joke: we called itrespect.

We didnt even know what it meant back then, but when you looked at someone, you didnt

immediately see the loser in them, but a howbeit primitive, but nonetheless human being, and we gave

them the benefit of the doubt. They may have been different from us even older, but we somehowgave them a chance to prove themselves to maybe not turn out to be a mega-loser, after all (although

the evolution of the word mega-loser only set in a decade later, or two, I must admit). In other

words, me might have given them a second glance, which, in essence is what re-spect means: lookagain!

Instead of Stalloneian invulnerability and Schwarzeneggerian immortality we had to do with anoutdated item called decency.

Somehow, though, the fact that we were missing out on all the qualities that make the new generation

so superior managed to perfectly elude us. We didnt even realize.

We somehow managed to exist with only a fraction of the TV channels available to folks today,

without all the wonders of hi-tech communication and just resorted to the available, though primitive

means of verbal conversation, or even writing letters and such stuff.

Since we had a lot less things, those fewer things somehow meant more to us.

Even such tiny, seemingly irrelevant particles of our world as words still seemed to have a meaning to

us back then, that was, before our politicians enlightened us to the delusion of our ways (since they

obviously proved the opposite to be true time and again, namely that words dont really coincide withreality).

Yes, they were strange and bizarre times, and I guess the way most young folks nowadays relate tothem was the way that we looked back on the Stone Age.

So, heres a salute to you, the younger generation of the onset of the 21 st century, from one of thoseancient cavemen: May all your dreams come true, and not turn into nightmares (just as many of our

nightmares thankfully did notcome true), and may you achieve all your goals. May those who lead

you turn out to be truer than those who led us, and may you, too, learn to appreciate what you have,and perhaps the way we did despite all that wealth of new knowledge you accumulate, enjoy a

little bit of the blissful ignorance occasionally, of all the things future generations will wonder how

you managed to survive without; and may you if possible remember this one piece of advice from

a 20th century Neanderthal man:

Its not having what you want, but wanting what you have that counts.

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