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Oh How The Times Have Changed

Sorry mom and dad but we live in a very different generation than you did.

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Oh How The Times Have Changed
Sophia Teicher

Times have changed. Cell phones can be found on your person 24/7, babies have iPads, and cars can drive themselves. New inventions, trends, and ideas are announced every day, amazing us as consumers, to the possibilities and creativity of this generation. To what is to come next is all a mystery, but something we all are highly anticipating. Mom and dad, are constantly asking you for help, because no matter how much your mom says she is a "cool mom" she still manages to call you asking for help downloading an app.

The times have changed since our parents were young adults. Advise from mom is taken into consideration, but sometimes cannot always be applicable. Communication has blurred as time as gone on, and when the accidental "lmao" is typed in response to a text from my parents, I realize my mom just thinks I can't spell. Plans can now be made in seconds, with a simple "wya" or "wyd" instead of having to call on the home phone asking for Nancy, or knocking on their front door. Times have changed.

Mom or dad maybe smoked cigarettes back in the day, us not so much. We have found the substitute, it's in perfect form, and mom is worried you have an oral fixation because you constantly have a flash drive in your mouth; the Juul. "We drink like fishes," questioned as to why we go out at eleven, instead of getting home at that time, sorry mom. Outfits are skimpier, nights are longer, and trouble is always around the corner. No more parties in the woods like mom and dad did, standard here we come. Oh how the times have changed.

Shorts have gotten shorter, trends have changed or returned, making mom's closet of velvet and bell bottom jeans, the center of your wardrobe. Except mom isn't so down for us ordering $200 sneakers online, is appalled by the trend of side boob, and does not trust the "interwebs to deliver your money" via Venmo. Times have changed.

Looking forward it's exciting and incredibly scary what will happen next. Our kids will live in such a different world than us if we continue with this upward curve. Times have changed, lets see what happens next.


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