Of course our current time seems boring, we're living in it.
Slightly off-topic, but I genuinely get a kick out of the fact that in 50 years' time my grandchildren will be coming up to me and asking how it was like to live through the height of the "same sex marriage movement" just like how I asked my grandparents how it was like to live during the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s. Just like my grandparents did me, I won't have anything especially insightful to say and my grandchildren will think that I'm either a bigot who has yet to change his ways or that I spent the better-part of my young adulthood under a rock.
just come up with good stories so it sounds like you're on the right side of history
"I supported it from the word go in Massachusetts in 2003. I never had a problem with those gay people."
kids wince at the use of the outdated term "gay," chalk it down to grandpa Mikado's homophobia.
