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Postcards from Space: Generation Nothing

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Matt Bors has been laying down some truthbombs about the myth of lazy, entitled Millennials. Go read.

I was born in the 1979-1983 generation gap—a few years short of X, a few years ahead of Millennials. We’re a generation defined by disaster: Columbine, 9/11. We came of age at the peak of the…

I’m a late-term Gen-X’er, but I can still relate to this worldview, as it still applies to many of us born in the 70s.

tattoolit: My second tattoo from Scary Carrie in Lawrence, KS and my contribution to the thousands of other “So It Goes” tattoos. Vonnegut’s book is one of my absolute favorites, I couldn’t help but get this inked. The arrow is from a quote that I felt went along with the other, “An arrow can be shot only by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great.” Hope you like it!
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tattoolit:

My second tattoo from Scary Carrie in Lawrence, KS and my contribution to the thousands of other “So It Goes” tattoos.

Vonnegut’s book is one of my absolute favorites, I couldn’t help but get this inked. The arrow is from a quote that I felt went along with the other, “An arrow can be shot only by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to launch you into something great.”

Hope you like it!

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