I read a book where the narrator postulated that the most important thing you could do between the ages of 18 and 40, was find something that will give you purpose during your 40s, 50s, and beyond.
I think the authors of this article are expressing the same thing, and worrying that the twixters aren't finding that thing.
I'm 38, and I haven't found anything like that myself. And I do worry about it. Why am I here on this earth? Surely there's something else besides the accumulation of ever more stuff. Religion's a crock. I am not a parent and I don't really want to be. What should I do with myself?
One big advantage that people who reproduce have, is that they don't have to wonder what their purpose is. They're parents; their job is to do their best for their children. They can just defer all that meaning of life stuff onto their kids. It may not be very fair to the kids to lay all that weight on them, but it's probably better to do that to your kids, than it is to decide that you DO know what it all means, and inflict fundamentalist christianity or some such thing on them.
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Date: 2005-01-19 09:08 pm (UTC)You ask, "Why shouldn't everyone be a Twixter?"
I read a book where the narrator postulated that the most important thing you could do between the ages of 18 and 40, was find something that will give you purpose during your 40s, 50s, and beyond.
I think the authors of this article are expressing the same thing, and worrying that the twixters aren't finding that thing.
I'm 38, and I haven't found anything like that myself. And I do worry about it. Why am I here on this earth? Surely there's something else besides the accumulation of ever more stuff. Religion's a crock. I am not a parent and I don't really want to be. What should I do with myself?
One big advantage that people who reproduce have, is that they don't have to wonder what their purpose is. They're parents; their job is to do their best for their children. They can just defer all that meaning of life stuff onto their kids. It may not be very fair to the kids to lay all that weight on them, but it's probably better to do that to your kids, than it is to decide that you DO know what it all means, and inflict fundamentalist christianity or some such thing on them.