Toolkit

My son gets it. He is intelligent, inquisitive and thoughtful and things I have to explain to other people with more effort flows like water with him. 

He just turned 26 and has that same uncertainty we all do at that age. This era only adding more angst than when I was the same age. 

What I love about GenZ is that they don't care what you do or who you are. They want to know if you are reliable and a nice person. They have much less tendency to come pre-wired with the judgement criteria that we were filled with growing up. 

They weren't subjected to the life is hard and mean warnings which our silent generation parents felt compelled to cram into our brains. They prepared us to deal with the cruel and stupid people which are always plentiful in the world. 

But as society slowly immersed itself into more malleable terrain, the generation of my children saw that there was no danger in diversity of ideas or identities. They learned to fear less which is why less thoughtful boomers sometimes see them as lazy or disinterested. 

They aren't. 

Additionally they have a much harder economic ladder to climb with much less opportunity than we had. 

People don't fundamentally change but circumstances do which is why the best toolkit we can possess is critical thinking bolstered by kindness, discipline and self-respect.

He has them all.