The years are creeping in and I'm getting subtle hints that my contemporary "cool" has been left in the past. There's a surreal tinge to this revelation since this sort of thing has never been a real concern of mine.
 
Despite the obvious markers of adulthood it's the little things that serve as reminders of my aging. My growing disenchantment with the music on the radio, distaste for the newest social media, disregard for fashion trends have slowly built up over time. (I'll spare you my specific complaints). Of course, there are exceptions to all of these, but they only make it harder to recognize how out of touch I am with social trends. I can still see these things happening around me, and I understand their appeal perfectly well, but at some point I transitioned from youth culture to the seemingly endless  limbo that lies between college and full adulthood. I suppose I'm not alone in this feeling. I'm sure many of you also feel that everybody else has somehow grown up, while you've just been pretending to be an adult. 
 
I'm not blind, I can see that as society evolves, each generation goes on to denigrate the music and trends of succeeding generations. But I could never imagine how that change would come to me. Now I'm left wondering how the succeeding generation will see my own. I've had my share of laughs at the 70s, 80s, and the 90s, and I suppose that the "00's" will be my place in the history books.
 
Oh good grief, I just realized that my kids will categorize me as being from the "auto-tune" era.