Warning: This is like a stream of consciousness rambling.
Technically I’m a GenXer. But reading through Gen X & Gen Y, I think I relate better to the Gen Yers. I sort of fit into the inbetween MTV generation. But I remember my friends first getting MTV, but my parents still to this day don’t have cable television. They have an antenne. They pick up broadcast signal from ABC, NBC, CBS & PBS. That’s it. 4 stations. You don’t like it there’s a VCR & a DVD player. They still don’t have cable television out where my parents live. They live a mile from where it stops.
I think that’s one reason why I didn’t watch much TV growing up. I had to go to a friend’s house to watch Nickolodean or MTV. Got into certain TV shows Junior year in college. Mainly Highlander and La Femme Nikita. Then got busy with work and school after I moved to Memphis. My first year in the apartment I had rabbit ears. Plus I was in class 2 nights per week. Got into Firefly with Todd when it was on the air. I was still in school at that time, but with a DVR I could watch it later. But they kept changing the schedule. And then they canceled it.
Have I mentioned I adore TiVo? Set a Season Pass to record all shows (or set to just new shows) of a program. And they’re recorded. Even if they do move from Wednesday to Friday your recording settings moves right with them.
Anyway the college kids that I know make more sense to me than people my age. Everyone else my age’s concerns are the family, divorces, kids, buying a house, building a house, selling a house… You know when my mom was my age she had a 10 year old. I’m 30. Not even dating anyone. Sometimes I wonder if I have attachement problems. Sometimes I think it’s all in my head. As a nurse I have a tendency to overdiagnose things. I like labels. And then you’ve got subtypes that are labeled. And if you saw my room you wouldn’t see an overcompulsive organizer. I have no housecleaning skills.
The reason why I quit going to Sunday School at my parent’s church when I’m back in L-burg is because they disolved the college and carrer class. Ladies 20-30 and Gentlement 20-30 replaced it. I went once. HATED it. Everyone was going on about children and husbands. I had no way to relate. And I told my parents I wasn’t going back to that class and why. And they understood SORTA. At the time I was working full time plus going to college. Those were my life concerns. Starting a life on my own. A church is a social insitution. It should help those grow within thier life. Or it fails it’s purpose.
I think that’s what reinforced my agnositic leanings that I started developing in college. Agnosts don’t throw anything out. They might need it later.
My dad got on to me a last year for looking at my Palm during church. Until I showed him it had my Bible on it. I didn’t have a paper copy with me. He didn’t say anything except he was sorry he fussed he didn’t realize I was reading through the bible during the sermon. He never says anything about it again. So I can sneak in a novel or even fanfic to read. I just wish they’d quit pressuring me to attend. I don’t go to Sunday School, but I still get pressured to attend the sermon. I still haven’t told them I’m agnostic.
Now I’ll go to Children’s Church and play with Joey & Chloe no problem. I’ll even provide adult supervision or read a story. Cause it’s fulfilling thier social role they need to have at this point in my life. But not mine.
And how did this go from Generation gaps to TV to religion? All that I missed was sex.