Short funny but sad anecdote from my personal life.
My boomer parents aren’t terrible people at all as far as the average boomer. My Dad was also smart with money even back in the day for a boomer and is loaded. I digress though.
They’ve reached a point in their lives where they believe they are entitled to fuck off for months at a time on cruise ships to other countries. Here recently they have been gone from everyone for about 2 months to Italy. Me, my zoomer sister, and my 3 millennial half siblings have a group chat with them.
Make of it what you will, but it’s hilarious and honestly saddening to wake up and see a text from them saying “Here we are at *insert lavish area none of us could ever hope to afford*” as if they expect us to be impressed or feel joy for them. Almost no one responds in this group chat save for my eldest millennial sister who ironically has the most from the prosperity era from boomers due to her age.
Me, my other two sisters, and my older brother truly do not give enough of a shit to respond. It may be petty and bitter but as far as my second oldest brother and my third oldest sister, they’re working hard and even then they’re not getting by well enough to where they don’t feel it.
Every single time my parents somehow are home for extended family or friend gatherings. It’s always about what they did, where they went, how they were serviced. It’s incredibly funny to see the current audience’s reaction, which is usually passive bemusement or at best an attempt at half-hearted enthusiasm. Most people cannot relate to these experiences so they don’t really have investment in their snobby stories.
They expect us to be in this group chat praising them or texting them about it, they’ve even expressed this. In reality we literally cannot be asked to give a fuck.
