The “epochs” of my life (so far)

I’m stealing this from a post I made a few days ago on Threads.

I was thinking the other day about the “epochs” of my life as an elder millennial and how they are defined by two of the biggest events to occur in my lifetime (and as a millennial there is a LOT to choose from). Broken down as follows: Birth – 9/11 was my childhood (I graduated high school in 2001) 9/11 – Covid was the entirety of my young adult life (college, grad school, got married, bought a house) Covid – present is my parenthood (my son was born in 2020).

I truly think the millennial experience is a completely unique one and specifically for those born closer to the start of the 80s when we had rainy days at the computer labs, learned to use the Dewey Decimal system and had a near 100% analog existence, to then come of age during an insane cultural shift that was the 90s/2000’s – computers coming into the home, the internet, mobile connectedness and then social media. Growing up we worried about the hole in the ozone layer and now nuclear power plants are being recommissioned so that we can have more AI in every facet of our lives (not me I don’t want it). I don’t have a point to make about any of this in general or even specifically except to highlight that the millennial experience is defined by unprecedentedness.