As I celebrate my 55th birthday, I think about how things are different for those of us in Generation X who are getting older.

We don’t have as many worries about student loans but medical bills that need paying. Health care is not cheap for anyone.

Our music is being used to sell us stuff like medication, mortgages, and in grocery stores.

Conversations with friends mean reminiscing and remembering about our youth while also talking about what ails us.

We are closer to being able to order from the senior menu at a restaurant and we are surprised when a fresh-faced teenager gives us a senior discount on our receipts at Arby’s.

Being a grownup looks different for us. I am getting older but not growing up whatever that means. Adulting can suck if you ask me but by now I have to be used to it but you don’t have to like it.

Thanks for listening to the rambling of an older person living their life at a milestone birthday.