What is a Babyboomer?

Do you feel that you have boomed since you were a baby?

My understanding of being a Baby boomer was one of those people who were conceived just after the Second World War.

There must have been a lot of relieved people on the planet at that time after years of uncertainty.

A time to return to some form of normality but even then there was still a long time of struggle to get by on rations and rebuilding strained relationships.

Growing up during that time exposed us to a level of freedom which had not existed earlier and there was no going back to the old ways.

During our youth we had rock and roll then pop music and industries were developed specifically for us.

New fashions and young styles emerged and we became a pain in the butt for the establishment who must have thought everything would go back to what they thought was normal.

And now the euphoria has died down and our young cult heroes and leaders are drawing their pensions or still immortalised as legends long who will stay always young, never knowing how it feels to age.

With age we now have to think about more pressing matters such as our children’s inheritance, how much of it can we spend chasing our youth?

If you’re like me I have embraced these new things, TV, phones, holidays, houses and cars. The list goes on.

If you have been able to earn some money and get on the property ladder you will have a lot of these material trophies.

Added to that the spiritual aspects of what was it all for will be a nagging question which you may not yet have resolved.

Now we look at the youth and see a rebellious bunch obsessed with image, face book, tweeting, texting, drinking and we think are they’re wasting it all.

Just like we did.