Were you born between 1961 and 1981? Congratulations we are in the same club we are generation X. I found a national geographic series on Disney+ called Generation X and it was like it was speaking directly to me. I want to take examples from it and tell you how it affected me.

Let me start where I did 1972. The divorce rates shot up in the 70’s and I was one of those latch key kids. I might have been one of the lucky ones I don’t remember the time when my parents were together, so I didn’t know what a family was supposed to look like. I spent time with both my mother and my father. I spent weekends and summers with my dad. That sounds pretty good right they were both in my life. That didn’t leave any time for friends, so I became self-reliant a loner. There is one of them words that people use to describe generation X loner. I don’t know if I was born shy or the lack of social interaction made me that way. I know I grew out of it. I’m still an introvert, but I’m not as shy as I was when I was a kid.

I’m going to wrap this up here. Feedback is welcome especially that second paragraph where I feel I simply made a list. I need to learn to paint the picture with my words and not just list.