[forebubba]

Maybe we don't have it that bad? Excellent perspective for
anyone born in 1900.............................................. ..............
It’s a mess out there now. Hard to discern between what’s
a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria. For
a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you
were born in 1900.
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*On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends

*On your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war.

*Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and
runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in
those two years. Yes, 50 million.


*On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins.
Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%.
That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses
along with the world economy.


*When you turn 39, World War II starts in Europe. You aren’t
even over the hill yet. And don’t try to catch your breath.

*On your 41st birthday, the United States is fully pulled into
WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million
people perish in the war.

*Smallpox was epidemic until you were in your 40’s, as it
killed 300 million people during your lifetime.

*At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish.

*From your birth, until you are 55 you dealt with the fear of
Polio epidemics each summer. You experience friends and
family contracting polio and being paralyzed and/or die.


*At 55 the Vietnam War begins and doesn’t end for 20 years.
4 million people perish in that conflict.

*During the Cold War, you lived each day with the fear of
nuclear annihilation.

*On your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis,
a tipping point in the Cold War.

*Life on our planet, as we know it, almost ended. When
you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends.


Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How did they
endure all of that? When you were a kid in 1985 and didn’t
think your 85-year-old grandparent understood how hard
school was. And how mean that kid in your class was. Yet
they survived through everything listed above. Perspective
is an amazing art. Refined and enlightening as time goes
on. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Your parents
and/or grandparents were called to endure all of the above
– you are called to stay home and sit