Reentry — Generation X vs The Zoomers
How the generational gap gives the word different outcomes.
Reentry: what a loaded word in today's times! By definition “the action or process of re-entering something”. To me, the first thing that enters my mind is, reentry into society after this pandemic and suddenly, the word is loaded full of hurdles. Social anxiety after having stayed at home for 18+ months. Returning to work, getting used to new routines, forming new habits and dropping old ones, learning to navigate the ‘new norm’. The list goes on even down to the very simple and mundane…putting on makeup again, wearing uncomfortable clothes, and pretending that I can keep up with the fast pace of society and my pre-pandemic life, while all at the same time falling apart inside!
When I presented my 14 year old with the same writing challenge that I was going to do and told him the four key words…Death, Work, Reentry and Space…it was the word reentry that sparked his imagination. So much so, that he texted me in the middle of the night, with a story that came to him and he couldn’t sleep till he had it written down.
The Facebook message read, “This is just a story I wrote at 3am 😂not the greatest but I had to get up and write it because I thought of it”
The story has a hero, in this case, Mark Zuckerberg and it has a bad guy, who did his time…
