Emily's Musings

Grups

Ok, so I know I'm not actually cool and hip enough to count as a "grup" (I certainly don't listen to the right music anyway), but I found this article from New York Magazine on Up With Grups really fascinating (since I don't usually feel very grown up).

This cohort is not interested in putting away childish things. They are a generation or two of affluent, urban adults who are now happily sailing through their thirties and forties, and even fifties, clad in beat-up sneakers and cashmere hoodies, content that they can enjoy all the good parts of being a grown-up (a real paycheck, a family, the warm touch of cashmere) with none of the bad parts (Dockers, management seminars, indentured servitude at the local Gymboree). It’s about a brave new world whose citizens are radically rethinking what it means to be a grown-up and whether being a grown-up still requires, you know, actually growing up.