When I see our parents generation now as the "elderly" or "old people" that are over age 65. They were interviewing this really old looking man in his 70s on the news the other day about his time serving in a war, automatically I just flashed into thinking that grandpa here must have served in World War II or perhaps Korea (1940s-early 50s), as those were the wars the elderly folks served in when I was younger. Nope, to my surprise he served in the Vietnam War (1960s-70s),...which was my parents generation of protestors, hippies and draft dodgers. I just felt really old. I'm going to feel really old when older look people show up in the news one day and say they served in some war in the 80s, 90s or 2000s.

**SIGH** I was a teen in the'80's. In my typical Gemini non-conforming, non-committal & completely eclectic ways, I had hard-core Punk friends, MOD friends, New Wave, POP, even Country, and of course the ever loving Big-Haired Head-Banger chick wearing leopard print spandex & stilettos friends. I absolutely adored (and still do) everything about each group. They will always be a part of who I am. --Today, I mostly relate to the Rock & Roll Head-Banger me. Back in '98, I worked at SGI. (At least I don't have to explain who SGI was on here! hahaha!!) 'Suffragette City' came on the radio, & I said "Oh, I LOVE David Bowie!!" The intern looked at me like I was one of the Spiders From Mars, and said "who's that?" I said "Ummm, David Bowie, you know, Ziggy Stardust... the Spiders from Mars??? No..." She's still has this strange look on her face, then she says, "Oh, that dude with the hair, & spandex...He did that movie with the Muppets, with the crystal balls, THAT guy, right?!" Yeah, I did a "**FACEPALM**" before it was ever a "thing" LOL! Now, now I just feel old because my 19 year old daughter (who much prefers the '80's, herself and is in love with Bowie. Must be the accent. LOL!) is about to turn me into a grandmother! But, I will be one of the coolest grandmas around!! ;)

You remember how back in the 80s a car that had power windows, automatic locks, cruise control, an alarm system and airbags were considered a luxury to show off to people. I remember in the 80s I thought a car that had cruise control, power windows and automatic locks were so ridiculously cool. Heck even in the 90s, it was still something of a luxury to brag to others that your car had all that stuff. Even in the late 90s, I thought it was a big deal when a car had a CD player. Today in 2014, these things are standard on basically all cars, plus ofcourse even newer technologies like Bluetooth communications and satellite GPS. Try explaining to kids today how basic and no frills most cars of the 80s and 90s were and they'll look at you like you grew up riding horses and wagons.

Human beings are strange. The cosmos is crazy old, the Earth is over 4.5 billion years old, but we'll call 5 or 10 years ago "another era". 20 or 30 years ago "a period in history". "What's a record?" "Who are the Ghostbusters?" "Like, omg, you remember the 1980s!!?? You were driving in the 90s? Eaauu!"

Getting older is like being a reverse time traveler. You're always traveling into the future and meeting people that didn't grow up with the stuff you did. It's weird as hell and you understand what generations of people went through before you. Even when you meet a really young adult in the 18-21 age range, they will usually be unaware of what happened 10 years ago beyond some basic pop culture.

When you were in high school or college (this was actually the 90s or even early 2000s), Jay Leno was still considered "the new" younger host of The Tonight Show, instead of the older guy he became by the 2010s. On top of that, you remember watching Johnny Carson's Tonight Show in the 80s and when Leno was the Monday night guest host.