Dust in the wind: The twilight of the boomers

The end of the boomers is upon us, but do they even know it? Is death the new 40?

I’ve had thoughts of boomers floating through my head recently. Some of you reading this are boomers, and I might have been one had I been born a few years earlier. Yet the boomers are a vexing generation, as all Gen X’ers know since we have dealt with them our entire lives.

But nothing lasts forever, and the time of the boomers is coming to an end, slowly but surely. Twilight is upon them all, and soon, night must fall. There is no escaping it. Father Time comes for us all, and now his gaze is fixed steadily, inevitably on the boomers, and when that gaze falls on you, there is nowhere to run and hide.

Gen X and the boomers

How many times has Gen X had to roll its collective eyes as the boomers proclaimed that 60 is the 40, 70 is the new 50, 80 is the new 60, and so on? I fully expect that when Jane Fonda dies, some stupid boomer website or magazine will have a photo of her dead in her casket with the caption: Death is the new 20!!! And the boomers will all cheer, believing it is still t…