Who Knew a Boomer Would Know That?

Boomers: How many times have you surprisedremember playing Trivial Pursuit with my aunt. I
yourself with something you thought you didn'twas in my thirties, she in her late seventies.
know, but you did! In midlife we sometimes beginEveryone else was in their twenties and
to worry about loss of memory. How manyabsolutely certain they knew more than any two
times have you gone into a room, only to notof us combined. We paired up and I chose my
remember why you went in there in the firstaunt as partner. Good thing to. When it came to
place? Or where are those keys you keep losing?movie stars, Broadway musicals, sports teams of
Just as surprising however are all the things youthe mid 1900's she was an encyclopedia! We beat
do remember. It could be the name of a statethe other teams, hands down. Of course if the
capital you suddenly remembered when you andgame had been anything other than the first
your friends were looking at travel magazines,edition which was published back in the early
planning your next trip to Yellowstone National1980's we would have been stumped.
Park. Who knew that Cheyenne is the Capital of
Wyoming? Somewhere in the deep recesses ofNever underestimate how much you know,
your brain that small factoid came out just whenBoomers. Every day you add to your library of
you needed it.wisdom and knowledge. Sometimes it takes a
You have lots of surprises inside! Lots of wisdom.little while to dig down and find the fact you are
And the older you get, the more wisdom you findlooking for. But that's because there's so much
within. Every midlifer has stories to tell. Ithere to dig through!