What many Boomers have is the experience of challenging boundaries throughout our youth. This includes both challenging the Vietnam War and having the courage to fight for one’s country. Included is willingness to experiment and use conscious changing drugs and for some to face one’s own addiction. Also included is youthful embracing of idealism, vision and a change-the-world philosophy. Many commentators have noted that the Boomers lost the idealism of their youth as they built self-serving lives of avarice, ruthless commerce and self-obsessiveness. My belief is that alive under those shadows lives our better consciousness. Boomers have the opportunity to reconnect with their better selves and inhabit the noble goals of youth merged with the practical skills, understandings and know-how they gained as Warriors. My hope is that many of them will have the courage to do so.
Published on September 10, 2014 09:09