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- From: howeird@hpl.hp.com (Howard Stateman)
- Subject: Re: Turning 30!!
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:24:57 GMT
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- Trish Joselyn (joselyn@clio.asd.sgi.com) wrote:
- : I can't stand that fact that people of an older
- : generation expect us to do and be the same people and live the type of
- : lifestyle that they lived!@!
- Be a little more forgiving on this one -- until our generation, the Same
- Old Lifestyle worked for about 200 years. In fact, it still works most
- places. It just doesn't work in any of the USA's high-tech centers.
-
- : I'm really angry that I share my thrill of bungee jumping to my family that
- : all I hear is grief. It's okay that my brother almost kills himself
- : everyweek mountain biking.
- Somehow, mountain biking doesn't atrike me as a lethal sport. I'm 42, I
- mountain bike, and haven't gotten a scratch. What the two have in common is
- that if you don't take care of your equipment, it can kill you. What's
- different is that bungee jumping accidents are almost always fatal,
- mountain biking accidents rarely are.
-
- : I think they're upset that I'm having
- : more fun than they did at my age -- think I'm right!?
- Nope. Parents expect their kids to have more fun than they did. It's part
- of bringing them up right. What's wrong with your parents is they are
- trying to hang into their roles as your protector long after you've taken
- over the job yourself.
-
- : Can't Madison Ave or generations of old understand that survival goes to
- : the fittest.
- But it doesn't. It goes to the luckiest. Unless you consider Dan Quayle one
- of the fittest...
-
- : What I will probably do is continue to enjoy my life, save when/where I
- : can. Looking for Mr. Right is fun so I won't stop doing that.
- Finally, something that makes sense!
-
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