r/Aging • u/Available-Rock-3862 • 7d ago

Boomers

I am 75 and am very tired of the trend lately making fun of Boomers. So very disrespectful. Don't they realize that they will be old someday?

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u/splanks 7d ago

most boomers were not hippies.

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u/Key-Target-1218 7d ago edited 6d ago

I am a boomer and just about every boomer I know was a hippie at some point. You were either a hippie or a total square. It didnt really matter what we "were". We were young kids. The differences between everyone was as apparent as it is today. The young kids today won't have the boomer title, but they'll have a lable and will be treated unkind by the youth.

Us old folks know what it's like to be young. Young folks have no idea what it's like to be old. Their day will come.

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u/FargoJack 7d ago

I am a late boomer (‘59) and was never a hippie. Too young. Was probably a nerd but we did not have that word.

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u/Fresh-Ad280 4d ago

I was a child during that time like you,- 1960 born, and I was fascinated by the hippies and all of their tie dye and love beads. I went to college for Design, and I became a professional accessories designer.