Are millenials the dumbest generation ever? I've met some really dumb millenials, but I've also met some great ones. I've also met some dumb baby boomers as well. My generation "the silent generation" has our share of misguided folk.

I was there in the "free love" generation of the sixties. Sexual promiscuity was rampant. Even lost at least one high school friend to some mysterious disease call HIV. Lost one high school classmate in a Viet Cong Ambush. Culutural norms were changing. But you know what I see signs the pendulum is swinging the other way. Many millenials are embracing the "straight life", as they accept the traditional family model. They want the same thing every generation wants.....happiness. Hey happiness is found in service and giving of yourself to someone else. Relationship involves risk. I say take the risk. I did and my bride and I are in our 49th year on our way to forever. Was it easy? Heck no. I had to scrub myself many times. Two magic words, "I'm sorry"! Say it often and throw in roses.....lots of roses. Important! DO NOT FORGET YOUR ANNIVERSARY.

But you know what I see in my bride now is the whole person. Hard to explain. The day I married her I saw her young and beautiful. Today I still see her young and beautiful. But we've paid a lot of bills, struggled to raise kids in a world gone mad, even started our lives over in a different town many times. Some of you millenials will not like what I have to say next. WE WENT TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY AND WE PRAYED A LOT. We were not perfect. Flawed? Absolutely. But I loved my bride then, and I love her now. Choose carefully. Plus she is pure magic with an infant granddaughter. I'm still in awe of her when she holds our baby granddaughter. She's just about the prettiest creation I've ever seen. You millenials will experience that too, if you just hang in there. Don't get sucked into the sex part, look at the persons heart. Does this person have a good heart? That's all I've got to say.

Love is a decision.

This post was edited on 4/20/17 at 6:16 pm