Perspective is everything
 

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Imagine you were born in 1900.
When you're 14 World War I begins and ends at 18 years old with 22 million dead.
Shortly after, a global pandemic Flu called 'Spanish' ", kills 50 million people.
You come out alive and free
You are 20 years old.
Then, at 29, you survive the global economic crisis that started with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, causing deflation, Unemployment, and Hunger.
At 33, the nazis come to power.
You turn 39 when World War II starts and ends at 45 During the Holocaust (Holocaust), 6 million Jews die.
There will be over 60 million deaths in total.
When you're 52, the Korean War begins.
At age 64, the Vietnam War begins and ends at age 75
A person born in 1985 thinks his grandparents have no idea how difficult life is, but they have survived several wars and disasters.
A person born in 1995 and now 25 years old thinks it's the end of the world when his Amazon package takes over three days to arrive or when he doesn't get more than 15 likes for their photo posted on Facebook or Instagram. ....
In 2020, many of us live comfortably, have access to different sources of home entertainment, and often have more than we need.
None of this existed before.
But we survived far more disastrous circumstances and never lost the joy of living.

Perspective is everything
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So Happy New Year and be thankful that TV can be the friendliest home town, if you decide to make it be that after surviving through the events in your life, and who others have not.

My father was born in 1898 and passed away in 1992. Horse and buggy to the moon and beyond. He experienced an ever changing world.

I wonder what George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and others alive during the founding of our great and wonderful country would have to say about life today here and in the world in general.

Our grandparents, parents and ourselves have sure lived in interesting times.

Can hardly imagine the world our grandkids will inherit

What a life! from the end of the Agrarian age through the industrial age to the beginning of the technology age. . . what a movie he saw!

My dad was from 1924 through 2015, seeing the same from his agrarian parents to the technology age, as a mechanical gear designer, from log tables and slide rules to trs80 to Auto Cad drawings, flying on airplanes at 700 mph. . .

I programmed his involute curve calculations on the TRS 80 in the early 80s and he loved it as a check against his slide rule calculations. . .

:bigbow: to the founders of industrial and technological revolutions.

my dad had mechanical assemblies go to the moon, and the first house on the right on our street, the owner was part of the heat shield development on the apollo missions for the capsule re-entry. . . what a time to be alive

My father had and survived the Spanish Flu. He was a grocer during the depression and saw people he knew who had no dog buy dog food to eat themselves as it was all they could afford.

My mother was born in 1905. Her father lost everything during the Great Depression. She lost one brother who was shot down flying back to England from a bomb run to Germany. Never found the plane or the bodies. Another brother was shot down flying The Hump. He and his whole crew survived. The Chinese hid them from the Japanese occupying forces and fed them. She used to tell me "Life is a struggle." and it certainly was back then. Very difficult times.

I've had the same thought. Soo many things I wish I was mature enough to have asked before they passed away. My great grandmother was over 100 when she passed. There is nothing as amusing for a 13 year old than a dirty joke from a 100 year old.

In her life time, she came to America on a sailing ship. The cheap rooms in the bow of the ship-it rocks the most. By the time she passed men had walked on the moon.

WE-I remember needing to go to the library to look things up a computer was huge. With punch cards. We did not have enough money to buy one but a TV had a tiny screen. Gadgets? They sold a magnifying lens for the TV.

The doctor would come to your house. He could see how you were living-how well you were eating. How clean your home was. His charge was $5.00.

Yup, all has changed. Self responsibility for many it is totally nuts to them.

In addition to a very distinct and different perspective of the day, there is the matter of ethics and core values.

From MY perspective both of which have been and continue to degenerate/degrade/devolve!

Didn't you ever hear your elders say the same thing when you were young?

Should i be afraid ? Joe
 

above the party before they depart]

William Parrish : It's hard to let go, isn't it?

Joe Black : Yes it is, Bill.

William Parrish : And that's life... what can I tell you.

William Parrish : Should I be afraid?

Joe Black : Not a man like you

My father, my grandfather and his fathers and brothers all worked the coal mines in Pennsylvania, some died early from black lung disease; pneumoconiosis (CWP) and silicosis.Tough lives.

Hardships builds character and gratitude to be alive. I have trust in the majority of humankind being adaptable and weathering new shortcomings, whatever they may be.

“Avoid foreign entanglements”

My mom was born in a farm in 1909. She grew up with no electric, no cars. Grandpa had a horse that pulled the plow on the farm. He lived to be 96. Even when I was a little girl we stayed at another relative's farm and they had one electric wire strung across the ceiling with a bare light bulb in the house, no phone, unpasturized milk, no indoor bathroom, and a hand pump in the kitchen for water.

I moved from Boston to a then rural town in the early 60s
The town grocery store is now a 4 table pizza joint and a same size convenience store.
There were 3 to 4 cattle farms on the road out to my house. One additional farm was on a hill for hay, and still used a horse to ?? it in the 60s due to the slope.
There were many police reports of cattle in the road which had escaped.
Only the major roads had asphalt, the remainder had dirt or sand covered asphalt liquid

That is civilized compared to RMD's farm description above. . . our ancestors were tough, coming from the agrarian age. Working for survival every day, just like a gazelle on the Serenghetti, eat or be eaten, farm or starve. .

The Lewis and clark expedition had to find food almost every day, just to survive, as they couldn't carry much which would feed them for months.