Various 'Life Truths' Gen X'ers Were Told As Kids Turned Out To Be Utter Nonsense, Like These 30

Why exactly Gen X'ers? In fact, this is absolutely reasonable - these are representatives of the last generation in the history of human civilization (unless, of course, for some reason we give up technical progress) whose childhood and partly youth passed before the start of this insane online breakthrough that we all made in the late nineties and continue doing to this day. The last generation for which gadgets and the internet were not an integral attribute of their daily life growing up.

This implies another logical assumption - those who raised the future Gen X'ers were even less ready for fast progress, and perceived it with quite understandable skepticism towards this "newfangled stuff". And these older folks transferred their attitude, for example, to computers from TVs or radio. Hence the dozens, hundreds of absolutely ridiculous demands on the use of gadgets that we encountered in childhood.

For example, my grandma also repeatedly told me not to sit close to the TV or I'd go blind. And it doesn't matter what kind of TV it was - a fossil kinescope dinosaur or an incredibly advanced (for the second half of the nineties, of course) LCD monitor. After all, the older generation had this, well... whatchamacallit, life experience!

“Now humanity is at such a unique point in its development, when life experience, if it is more than a few years old, sometimes turns out to be not only irrelevant - even harmful,” says Vladimir Nemertsalov, a school principal and teacher from Ukraine, with whom Bored Panda got in touch for a comment. "The same applies to many work skills. If back in the middle of the last century, for example, an engineer graduated from a university and could work for several decades on the old baggage of skills and knowledge, only periodically taking refresher courses, then today it is almost impossible."

"Hence the problem of ageism at work - after all, older, experienced workers have always been considered more valuable, and this paradigm is now breaking painfully. Because the ability to constantly learn in the modern world often turns out to be way more important than experience. So even if some advice that we were given a quarter of a century ago and before was really useful, now we are left with only a nostalgic smile for it," Vladimir summarizes.

No, all these words we have said do not at all mean that everything that we were taught in childhood should be treated with disdain, as outdated nonsense. Do not discard it - but take it critically, trying to extract the grains of remaining benefit. And, of course, feel free to crack up at the really ridiculous pieces of 'practical wisdom' coming from your childhood. So if you're a Gen X'er like me, please feel free to scroll this list to the very end and embrace some nostalgia. Or just sincerely laugh at these funny 'boomers' in case you're way younger.