An electrician recently informed us that one of our circuit breakers was produced by a company that went out of business in 1954. A landscaper said he hadn’t used railroad ties in more than a decade when I mentioned them as a project possibility. Our next door neighbor asked if we owned a cassette tape player.
Then our daughter admitted that she was the only one using poster board during a project presentation day at school. That was around the same time my godchild announced her college choice.
All of this happened in a matter of just a few days. I’d love to pass myself off as being old school, but lately I’m just feeling old.
At least I don’t watch Fox News! If you check presidential job approval polls broken down by generation, you can see that people are no longer getting wiser with age.
But maybe there still are some benefits that come with our advancing years. A national survey of 20,000 adults by health insurer Cigna found that the younger generation is lonelier than older generations. Based on something called the “UCLA Loneliness Scale” where a score of 43 or above is considered lonely, Generation Z, born between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s, posted a 48.3, while Millennials came in at 45.3. By comparison, Baby Boomers scored 42.4, and The Greatest Generation, those 72 and above, led the way again with a score of 38.6 on the loneliness scale.
That had me feeling better, but then I remembered that my firstborn daughter turns 10 this year, my sister 40 and my parents hit their 50th wedding anniversary in a couple of months.
I’m feeling old.
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