A SPECIAL GENERATION

I don't remember where I found this text and also not in which language. Certain is that I translated it, because it is so true ! Being born in 1943 I am part of this special generation ! 

They call us the elderly
We were born in the 40 50 60
We grew up in the 50 60 70
We studied in the 60 70 80
we were dating in the 70 80 90 They call us "the elderly"

We got married and discovered the world
in the 70 80 90
We ventured into the 80 90
We stabilized in the 2000

We got wiser in the 2010
and we are going firmly through and beyond 2020
Turns out we have lived through EIGHT different decades
TWO different centuries
TWO different millenaires

We have gone from the telephone with an operator
for long distance calls, to video calls anywhere in the world

We have gone from slides to YOU TUBE
from handwritten letters to email and Whats App
from Live matches on the radio, to back and white TV coolour TV and then to 3D, HD TV

We went to the Video store and now we watch Netflix,
We got to know the first computers, punch cqards, floppy disks and now we have gigabytes and megabytes on our smartphones

We wore shorts throughout our childhood and then long trousers, Oxfords, flares, shell suits &blue jeans
We dodged infantile paralysis, meningitis, polio, tuberculosis, swine flu and COVID -19

We rode skates tricycles, bicycles, mopeds, petrol or diesel cars and now we drive Hybrids or electric.

Yes, we have bee through a lot but what a great life we have had
They could describe us as exceptional, 
people who were in that world of the fifties, who had an analog childhood and a digital adulthood.

We have kind of "seen it all" ! 
Our generation has literally lived through and witnessed more
than any other in every dimension of life
It is our generation that has literally adapted to CHANGE
A big round of applause to all the members of a very special generation which will be UNIQUE !