Saturday, November 01, 2025

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Exploring One’s Vulnerabilities

I have decided that the problem with
most of my previous relationships is
that they were with millennials.  This
may sound rather harsh, but for the

six years of being attached rather to
someone from a newer generation,
Z, I have been reflecting on this.  I
recall a ladder on the cover of a rather

popular book with a title that essentially
proclaimed when someone you’re with
seems stuck on a rung, when they’ve
outlasted their usefulness to you (dear

reader), then it’s time to ditch them
and move yourself up a rung.  Perhaps
not every millennial owns this book, but
it seems awfully indicative of how things

went at the end of my times with those
who’d be considered millennials.  Further
more, loyalty and commitment feel excluded
from a lengthy, generation-sized beat on

the timeline of modern life.  That’s a pretty
broad stroke I’ve just painted, granted, but
I do think it one worthy to contemplate.  If
you’d ever like to discuss this further, I would

welcome the opportunity to do so at your leisure.

ladder in Portland