Generation "I"dentity Crisis

I am a proud child of Generation X. Or is it Generation Y, or the MTV generation? What ever Generation I belong to I’m sure I’m proud of being so. But maybe my Generational identity crisis is less to do with my ignorance and more to do with the perpetual motion of the world around me these days. It seems like a new generation emerges every 8 to 10 years, when ever the terms attached to the previous Generation become stale in the ever evolving social vernacular. How is it that my mother and my aunt can both be considered baby boomers with a 16 year age difference, and yet my youngest brother, only 5 years my junior, is firmly planted in the Y to my X. What have we missed here?

I’m not sure the point I’m trying to make here. Maybe in our politically and socially correct society, vocabulary and terminology have to change so quickly to keep up with social unrest (and whiny people) that those of us in groups affected by such never ending change are not sure where they belong anymore. Does a disabled person know that through the miracles of modern language that they have been suddenly upgraded from crippled to disabled to physically challenged. Give it another couple of years and you’ll be running the 40 in 5.4 seconds.

Again, I’m not sure my point. All I know is that at a time when the dictionary is going through more rewrites than the Harry Potter Novels ever did, I am losing ground. I have owned my dictionary since the 5th grade. Which means more than anything I am consfused. Another card carrying member or generation Identity Crisis. Totally an udderly confused. But thanks to the latest version of Webster’s for a new generation (which has yet to be named) I am only “slightly unclear.”