Baby Boomer Blast from the Past!

I predict, quality of life illusions about a Baby Boomer Retirement, could be seen as a depressing thing. Perhaps by association, many are predicting that another passage in life has to be a minute before the wheelchairs and graveyards.

Quite the contrary! The first generation, Baby Boomers, 1946-1964, are about to retire; and actually, we are quite the spunky crowd, proud of our title and our future potential. Why?

Baby Boomers are high spirited junkies of life, living out every moment as we have throughout the years. We lived in self-indulged ignorance of anything holding us back from living life to the fullest. What year do you think the classic TV show, “The Best Years of our Lives” originated, yet here it is, still being shown every Christmas to date. It identifies with all generations, and illustrates that whatever the gloom and doom any era is presented with, it is, and always will be, “the best years of our lives.” This best loved number #1 show was created and aired in 1946.

In addition, Dr. Benjamin Spock was the American Idol of Parents, embraced by nervously quivering Baby Boomers who celebrated their first born child at the time. Like many things that grow old from generation to generation, Spock’s idea’s became worn and bested by psychologists and Parents who knew better, but Boomers rally the hero of our time when we needed that advice from the good Doctor.

We could also gripe about how much our beloved, “Tide” cost today, as we sentimentally browse the grocery store aisles, trying to decide to go for the best brand detergent or the cheapest. Our loyalties lie with Tide, because it was the very first detergent also used in the very first automatic washing machine back in 1946. Sentiment wins over poverty…Tide gets all the stains out!

Of course along with the Automatic Washer comes the first Electric Dryer. No more clothes hanging out on clotheslines for hours on end, and caught in the rain before we could hurriedly take them down. So, right out of our automatic washing machines with our Tide clean clothes, they quickly go into our lint-free dryers.

Here is yet another mind boggling thought…featuring the beloved world of ice cream. In 1946, American’s held the record for eating 714 million gallons of ice cream. Must have been a very hot year for Boomers in 1946 in more ways than one!

It really is fun to look back on historical events in our lives and grab a smile or two about how things “use” to be, especially things like the cost of “petrol .” That’s a hot issue, so, let’s not go there!

But Boomer Grandparents are generally not your white-haired, cane walking, senile types that give way to sitting around the house watching TV. No, they work out; they are computer literate; they do the “Electric Slide” with the grandkids; and yes, my five-year-old grandson beat me at bowling, tennis and baseball, on the infamous “Wii” game, BUT, I beat him at Golf, so lookout world, the Baby Boomers can, and will, keep up! It is after all, “The Best Years of our Lives!”

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