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Sometimes Young People Are Idiots
And sometimes they amaze me with how great they are
The other day I saw a 20-something friend. She hadn’t seen me in a while and she knows I’ve had cancer. We’d texted and talked about how the cancer affected my appetite and how it sometimes made me nauseous, etc.
When she saw me, she was obviously a little envious that I was so much thinner than she remembered.
The first thing she said to me?
“D*mn girl, how do I lose weight like you have?”
I replied to her, deadpan, “Get cancer.”
She had the good sense to appear embarrassed.
Yet she is not representative of many of the younger folks I know. And there are plenty of older folks who are idiots too.
One thing I have noticed is that younger people seem to be more dependent.
When I was in college, I didn’t know how to drive, but that is because I grew up in New York City. I didn’t need to know, since I just took the subway.
Most of my friends in college, however, who did not come from New York or Chicago, learned to drive in high school. It was a rite of passage.
Now?
