I'm not
Generation X. I barely remember Charles and Diana getting married. I don't watch
Seinfeld. I don't stick rigidly to
Levis,
Nike and
Coke. I loved the
Eighties, but not because of
The Breakfast Club,
Acid House and
A Flock of Seagulls (love for all those came to me in the
Nineties) - because of
Transformers,
Gauntlet and
BMX.
I'm not
Generation Y. I wasn't born in the
Eighties. I am old enough to remember
Challenger and lying awake scared about
World War III and global apocalypse. And I'm not targeted '
in the demo' for
Mountain Dew,
Skechers and
Pokemon.
And lo, He took all those born between 1975 and 1981 and He spake unto them "You are neither of Generation X
or Y. Therefore, I shall compartmentalize you Generation X Point Five.
I feel lost between two giant social and marketing
demographics. My
teenage years started at the dawn of the Nineties, and come the
Millennium I was expected to
grow up and get a job. In 1990, the Gen X in me expected me to be past my teenage angst (I wasn't even a teenager). And in the year 2000, the Gen Y in me expected me to be just ready to party, get wasted and empathise with
Limp Bizkit.
We are caught in the middle. And we demand our own entry in the generation encyclopaedia. Generation X Point Five:
Stuck In The Middle With You. Oh, that's blown it, hasn't it? :)