I used to think this but try to see that their reality isn't better or worse, just different. Our world is just a story to them.

I work with the elderly and the men constantly relate that their life was just work work work. No fun, no vacation out of the ordinary. I'm sure to them my generation must seem very self indulgent with all our time off to have fun and travel and "express" ourselves, stretchy pants and all. Probably their generation couldn't understand why they didn't want to march off to war like cannon fodder for glory.

What's really trippy is trying to imagine what our kids kids will be doing. Maybe it will be like Wall - e or maybe they will all be living off the grid in tiny houses and riding bamboo bicycles.