as someone who finds history somewhat interesting, if presented in a good way, i find it really fascinating that i think the recent past history before i was born was so much more interesting then the history and present i’ve experienced. I breifly put on some show on vh1 today, and it was one of their documentary type shows, and they were discussing and showing footage of the Kent State massacre during the Vietnam war. It was so interesting to see the footage of the guard kneeling to open fire on the students, and everything like that. It makes me want to be my parent’s age so i could have experienced the decades that I find most interesting. So much turmoil, and famous events. My decades have had nothing. It’s been so boring.

But then I think, we actually have had alot, and my generation’s children are going to look back at my decades and think they were so interesting, and so much happened, and they’re going to think that their decades were boring. The 60s and 70s had war, protests, civil rights, political leaders assassinated, space exploration…can you get anymore interesting? the 80s and 90s… what have we had? We’ve had no war, no major catastrophies, no major political cause…but if you think about it, we had Persian Gulf if you consider that a war, the end of the Cold war and fall of the Berlin Wall (which i find incredibly interesting), the Challenger explosion, Columbine….it’s too bad that most of the interesting stuff I don’t remember….challenger and berlin wall etc… I was too young to care what was going on. It’s in looking back that I find it fascinating. So I guess what I have left is Columbine. The next generation is going to look back and think that my decades were really interesting, that Challeneger, and the Cold war, and Columbine etc, were so interesting, and there was so much going on. Their decades are going to be boring….

And even while I complain about the lack of events in my decades, there is probably so much i could be paying attention to right now, that in 10 years i’m going to look back and think was really interesting.

Where am i going with this? does it even make sense?