yeah, I think we really wanted to be there at the crux of the change, at the most challenging times. :)
It's no accident that we had to deal with the 90s (blech) to get to the new millenium, that we reached adulthood in concurrance with the harmonic convergance, or that we got here before most of the other Indigo Children. Maybe we wanted to teach them, pave the way. :)