The first to take technology for granted. ![]() My generation is special because of what we missed rather than what we got, because in a certain sense we are the first and the last. "Just wait till we can vote," I said, bursting with 10-year-old fervor, ready to fast, freeze, march and die for peace and freedom as Joan Baez,īarefoot, sang "We Shall Overcome." Well, now we can vote, and we're old enough to attend rallies and knock on doors and wave placards, and suddenly it doesn't seem to matter any more. Ours was a limp, formless shrug to watered-down music that rarely made the feet tap. "When we're big, we'll dance like that," my friends and I whispered, watching Chubby Checker twist on "American Bandstand." But we inherited no dance steps, "When you're older," my mother promised, "you can wear lipstick." But when the timeĬame, of course, lipstick wasn't being worn. Mine is the generation of unfulfilled expectations. My older sister is special because she belonged to the first generation of teen-agers (before that, people in their teens were adolescents), ![]() ![]() Over-30's are special because they knew the Red Scare of Korea, Chuck Berry and beatniks. Very generation thinks it's special-my grandparents because they remember horses and buggies, my parents because of the Depression. An 18-Year-Old Looks Back On Life By JOYCE MAYNARD
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