The casualty of a lost generation

Today I was told by an aging baby boomer that I am a poor casualty of, "The lost generation," and there is little to nothing I can do about it. She said that I, like the other members of my generation, am destined not to succeed to be young, jobless, and broke for all of my life. All this from a cashier at subway. I am at college bettering myself working to "success" doing all that society tells me that I should. It took all I had to not talk back, to be polite. Truth is I felt sorry for her, stuck in a dead end job in to her at least fifties. I do not know why she told me that if she was trying to validate her existence by telling me mine was worthless or if maybe she felt threatened by me or even she just misspoke. I payed for my sub and left. I was already the better person. I thought about it for the rest of the day. In all truth our generation did get the short end of the stick, but our generation is also a lot more forward thinking and way more open to change. So to all the lost casualties of our parents mistakes, keep doing what you love and find fulfilling, because as long as you are not broke and jobless who cares if you are young for the rest of your life. No my generation is not lost, my generation is just taking its time. We do have to pick up the pieces of the generation before us. We realize what is important, doing what makes us happy and if we happen to prove some aging subway employees wrong, while we do what we love so be it. If we don't, who gives a fuck, they will all be dead before they realize they were right.