Accepting that values and culture change over time.

I'm gen X btw. I have an old business partner and he's a boomer. I heard that he's not doing good health wise so I have him a call. It's been a while since we spoke. So we talked about life and general and he mentions that the 70s was the greatest decade. Now we all know where this conversation is going and what's going to be said about the old days. Simple life, people more courteous to one another, less technology. I grew up in the 90s and I admit that sometimes I get in the same trap of missing the decade I grew up in. But now, I don't do it as much since I accept that values and culture change over time.

The world my generation and I grew up in is not the same as the world today. That's because the values and culture that revolved around my generation has now shifted to a newer and younger generation. And I think as a result, people in my generation and prior's have a hard time accepting that. I guess in a way it's kind of scary seeing what we once valued and cherish is getting repaced by something new. But that's now mother nature works. She replaces the old with the new.

One day, the boomers will be gone, then my generation, then millennials. We'll get replaced by Gen Z, Gen Alpha. By then Gen Z will get have to deal with the shifting change because their time in the sun is up and it's Gen Beta's turn. And the cycle repeats.

Acknowledging this has given me a new life perspective. For example, I have a kid. She's going to grow up not knowing a world without smartphones. I'm lucky to know a world without it. But as much as I like her to experience a world without it, it's not her world. I have to let her be. Her world will replace mine's, and it will be new and have endless possibilities beyond mine's. I can live with that.