Baby Zoomers

“With the way things are going, we are going to be known as Baby Zoomers 

instead of Baby Boomers." Carol Winicur, R.Sc.P.

It was after a recent Zoom session with a fellow practitioner, Carol Winicur that she 

off-handedly noted that since we are changing how we socially and professionally connect and communicate with one another, it might be time for a change to our generational nickname, from "Baby Boomers" to "Baby Zoomers" to reflect the popularity and widespread use of the virtual meeting software, Zoom©.

This is not to say that young people aren't using Zoom as well --of course, they are.  Hundreds of thousands of us are flocking to the virtual meeting software applications as a way to work and or stay connected during these times of mandated social distancing due to COVID-19.  

It is highly plausible that the yet-to-be born children of the COVID-19 lockdown will become the literal Baby Zoomers because they will be the actual progeny of this enforced seclusion for many couples.  

Similar to the way the .com monicker became associated with all things to do with the internet boom, I believe my friend Carol has presciently coined the latest entry into the permanent lexicon that will be attached to the COVID-19 history page along with the phrase, social-distancing.

Zoom being the current frontrunner of this virtual video meeting platform also stands to join the lexicon list of now famous proper names to become as long-lasting as Xerox© is to photo copying and Kleenex© to facial tissues.

That being said, as a Boomer-Zoomer myself, I know that how we proceed through this paradigm shift will indeed influence the generations that are to follow.  In my humble opinion, the way we were doing things, living and working in the current world environment was not working very well and hence, came to this screeching halt.  I’m hearing how many people want to get back to "normal" asap and many others agree with me that "normal" was an outdated term and screaming for updates.  Personally, I want to actively work towards co-creating and revealing what new operating system would be best for an ideal world.  
And why not?

"I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one." David Hockney

I was born into this generation with the current world view and conditioning only to think and function as if this were the one and only mode of desirable operation.  Sure, there would be improvements, updates and higher standards but basically this was it, folks. Or is it?

What if we proffered that this COVID crisis is Mother Nature's way of rebooting the world's operating systems? After all, the seemingly impossible holes in ozone are closing up. What if each us now get to contribute to a new coding system of how our world could work at its best?

We don't typically think of technology as bearing human traits such as compassion and love. Yet, with this pandemic we have had to toss out so many of our behaviors, concepts and actions. Why not re-vamp the idea of technology being a separate linear tool and let it become part of our personal bandwidth and connection?

Image by Gerd Altmann -  Pixabay

Our tech devices are here to stay and will always exponentially evolve, expand and express, and could be cultivated and utilized to better connect us, unite us and be of greater service to us all.

In both nicknames, the first word 'Baby' which originally represented or implied the generational offspring during a time intended for flourishing after the war.  As we globally survive this health pandemic and economic crisis (and we will), my hope is that we as a global family who will have shared this common ground will actually pay heed to what positive ideas have evolved from having to tap into a collective consciousness of our innate creativity and humanity to change things up for the better, for our future.

"The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from man to kind." Unknown