R.E.M. or Facebook the NEW therapy

Cabin fever is starting to set in on many out there in the Real World (RW).  I myself am not immune to the panic that is setting in worldwide.   For days I have been plagued with nightmares of a confining sort.   The "trapped at the amusement park" was most likely the worst one.  What's so bad about being trapped at an amusement park you ask?  You are trapped in the one place you love so much!  It is the inability to ever leave that is the true problem.  

Because of this, we need to take a break and look at the small things.  We forget the smaller things that make up the bigger picture.  

I am amazed at the way Gen Z and Millennials are able to run with this Social Distancing.  They were raised in the age of the cellphone where all communications are done via typing.   They have the most articulate thumbs and can communicate in less than 280 characters.  Instagram is the new way to tell a story with just pictures.   Think of it as the picture books we grew up with, but with duck lips and bunny ears. 

THESE KIDS WILL BE FINE!  

My Boomer husband, on the other hand, is only going to make it if I have something for him to fix. 

Me?  I'm a Gen Xer.  I am cynical and disaffected.  Gen Xers were the first children to have access to computers in our homes and schools.   In other words.... we built this city ...not on rock and roll but on technology.   So we can take it or leave it.   

Our children are entering a brave new world WE built.   And leaving us behind. 

That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, and aeroplanes
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid

Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs
Don't mis-serve your own needs
Speed it up a notch, speed, grunt, no, strength
The ladder starts to clatter
With a fear of height, down, height
Wire in a fire, represent the seven games
And a government for hire and a combat site
Left her, wasn't coming in a hurry
With the Furies breathing down your neck

Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

Six o'clock, T.V. hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline

It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)
I feel fine (I feel fine)

It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)

The other night I drifted nice continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam but neck, right, right

It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine (time I had some time alone)