Is this my destiny?

I read this article called "Up with the Grups*" about a new generation of parents that are spawning EVERYWHERE. I'm sure you've seen them. They're the hipster parents that look as cool as their kids. As the article puts it:

Also known as yupster (yuppie + hipster), yindie (yuppie + indie), and alterna-yuppie. Our preferred term, grup, is taken from an episode of Star Trek (keep reading) in which Captain Kirk et al. land on a planet of children who rule the world, with no adults in sight. The kids call Kirk and the crew “grups,” which they eventually figure out is a contraction of “grown-ups.” It turns out that all the grown-ups had died from a virus that greatly slows the aging process and kills anybody who grows up.

I'm getting to that age when I'm thinking about marriage and starting a family. Some of my friends are already married and have kids. They are definitely grups. Am I going to be a grup?

I'm not saying that I think I'm cool or that I am a hipster, or that I will be cooler than my kids. But I'm definitely not the suit-wearing-breadwinner-type of man of the 50's. I do live an alternative lifestyle, mostly out of necessity, but also because I make conscious decisions about the way I choose to live. I wear old clothes from the thrift store because I can't afford new ones. My hair is artfully toussled not because I spent an hour styling it, it's because my hair was jacked up when I got up and didn't feel like fixing it.

The article makes a good point of the disappearing generation gap. It says that there's a sociological anomaly where the generations are overlapping. For example, the type of music that kids are listening to today mimics what their parents might have listened to. Parents like the current stuff, too, but in a nostalgic way. Even in the rap genre, there's a resurgence of "old school" influence in today's music. (side story: I was listening to a hip hop station here in the bay area. During the "old school lunch hour" they played Mary J. Blige "I'm going down." Holy shit! Is that oldschool to kids today?!?)

My kids are going to be so cool.