✨ 🎙️ 🎧 Are you kidding me? ✨

Seriously—how long is this going to last?

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People are taking longer to grow up—and longer to grow old.

It is not just the kids.

Whether we’re tuned in or totally unaware, the signs are clear:

We’re all moving more slowly
through the traditional markers of life.

What’s up with that?

What if this isn’t a breakdown… but a course correction?

“Course correction? Are you kidding me?”

We’re crumbling. Systems are failing. People are panicking.

If this is a course correction, where exactly are we headed?

Here’s a thought:

Each generation plays a role in shifting the course.

Do you believe it?

When early Boomers burst onto the scene, they rallied, resisted, and shouted “No more!” to the rigid traditions of the past. But leadership—still helmed by the GI and Silent Generations—wasn’t ready to loosen its grip. Over time, that early Boomer fire smoldered out, while the industrial engines kept humming.

So… was all that Boomer vision energy for nothing?

At first glance, maybe.

But Late Wave Boomers took a different tack: If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

Though it looked like a return to business-as-usual, something had shifted. Slowly but surely, cracks began to show—at first, too small to halt the system, but enough to signal the beginning of the end. Foundations once solid began to give way. Even Boomers began to see that outdoing the previous generations was a fast track to nowhere.


That early Boomer vision, though slow to manifest, was enough to put a kink in the gears and quietly nudge us onto a new trajectory.

It wasn’t abrupt. But it was real.

Here’s the thing:

Deep societal change doesn’t happen overnight.

It takes decades.

Actually, it takes generations.

Each generation arrives with its own nudge—some gentle, some thunderous—steering culture in a new direction.

So maybe this slower pace isn’t stalling out.

Maybe it’s a signal.

Life isn’t following a straight line the way we were taught to expect.

It’s evolving.

Knowing this…

Might it be just a little easier to lean into this slower unfolding?

• Which milestones took you longer to reach than expected?

• What’s happening in your life today that seems to be in slow-motion mode?
  
  
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”Maybe this forced deliberate pace is just intrinsically part of being in that period.
And it reveals something central about us, about our institutions that, maybe, rapid movement would just hide. It forces us to look closer, perhaps, because
everything is moving with such deliberate exposed weight.”