Random Thought for Thursday 7/23/15

What if we all lived like we were 4th generation monarch butterflies?  (Yes, I've been watching my PBS again ... and no ... I don't mean that we should all move to Mexico to counter-balance the criminal migration of which the Trump [mis]speaks.)

But did you know that it's only the 4th generation that makes the big migratory trip ... and that, as a reward for having to do so, they live six to eight months, whereas the other three generations die off after just six *weeks* of emerging from the cocoon?

I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere ... and of course the other three generations play their role and are indispensable to the overall strategy, but it just seems like it's the 4G creatures that have to rise to a greater challenge than their fore-butterflies.  To put things in human perspective, if the WWII generation was the last "greatest generation" (on which I think all of us can agree), then the "matures", the "baby boomers" and "generation x" (my grouping) would be the disposable ones ... and that you "generation y/millennials" (born between 1981 and 2000) best live up to your calling and take care of the rest of us.

THE SOURCE OF THE GENERATION GROUPING:
http://www.marketingteacher.com/the-six-living-generations-in-america/

THE SOURCE OF THE GIF:
http://duncannonatc.org/where-have-all-the-monarchs-gone/

SIX WEEKS OR SIX MONTHS ... DEPENDS ON YOUR GENERATIONAL PLACEMENT:
http://www.monarch-butterfly.com/monarch-butterflies-facts.html