Generations

Every generation is defined by it's struggles. The so called Greatest Generation weathered the depression and WWII making them resilient and sacrificing. They are such a contrast to Generation Y who are called lazy, entitled and indulgent. I fall in the generation between the two but I have characteristics of each. Just because I am some what fluent in all things technology does not mean I am more concerned with updating my web page profile than I am with working hard. OK you've got me on that one! I have not seen hard work in almost twenty years but don't throw me to the wolves of the Greatest Generation just yet.
I for one am not about to write off Generation Y before it's members have had a chance to do anything with their lives. People have been writing off young people every since kids first danced the Charleston. Maybe all the naysayers should be injected with a little of Generation X's flower power. That would surly put a little more free love into the world and lord knows the world could use a little of that right about now.
Great generations come in cycles but none of us living today can really determine how long those cycles are. Every generation is faced with war, financial devastation and the battle of certain human rights. The members of each generation march into these uncontrollable storms of doom with their heads held high and full of a strong sense of self, yet they usually walk out of the storms triumphant.
Whether or not any generation is ever painted with greatness I could care less because I've had too many doses of flower power to think any other way but when the color of greatness is called for I'll be the first one to join the march.