As a fellow Gen Zer I feel like there is a generational gap. I want to see if I’m trippin or there actually is one.

  • tryptamine@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    This is me.

    Parents are baby boomers but had me really late. I used to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in my Super Mario themed tightey whitey underwear when I was like 4 years old…

    I remember in my small town leaving the house on my bike when I was 5 years old at sun up, and being gone playing with friends until the street lights came on, because that was when dinner was ready. I could easily have killed myself or been kidnapped, my parents didn’t see me for 12+ hours at a time.

    I’m from Oklahoma and I remember the walls of my schools Gym shaking from the Murrah Federal Building bombing.

    I was in Middle School and remember lots of high schoolers having gun racks, with hunting rifles, in their trucks parked in the student parking lot. And it was normal.

    I was in A+ classes at a community college while in high school and watched a live stream of the TODAY show as the second plane hit the WTC tower…

    I’ve watched the world go to shit, I have a kid that just turned 18 and I’m angry that they won’t get to live in a world that even resembles the one I grew up in.

    I’m just fucking angry.