Sheils Writes

In a generation, far, far away, full of bright neon colors & really big hair…lived your grandma & grandpa!

It was a time that doesn’t exist anymore, but it was the best!  I’m “Gen X” & your grandpa is a “baby boomer”…basically what that means is we were young & cool once, well, or “like, totally awesome”! (Popular GenX speak).

The internet did not exist.  We could not google anything.  We only saw a new movie in a movie theatre after finding out where & when it was playing from a newspaper (your Dad will probably still read these).  We had telephones in our houses attached to the wall tethered by a cord.  We went to McDonalds on dates and walked up to a counter, placed an order with an actual person, not a kiosk.

I am writing this now, so when you are old enough to read it, you can tell Generation Alpha (your generation) all about us.  We rode the wave of technology, some of us fared better than others, but we are survivors from a different era.  We can now ask “Alexa” for recipes & things, but we do kind of yell a little too loudly at “her”.

I’m here to tell you to have fun, don’t blink because it goes by fast, enjoy the ride and save pictures and memories from all your years ahead.  Those never go out of style from one generation to the next.  When you look back someday I know you’ll have as many great memories as I’ve been lucky to have!  The memories are the glue that holds me together, makes me whole.  I cherish them.

Love,

Me from the past (23 years old in the photo below)

Me from the present (58 at the time of this post), and;

Me from the future, who is looking forward to seeing many years through your eyes & making more memories to last the rest of my lifetime!