Published on 12, July, 2020
I've borrowed this question from something intimated in another thread.
Do you think life has improved for you as you have grown older?
Is it because society has changed or you/your life have changed or a combination?
There was a comparison in another thread with 1980.
I realise some of the readers here won't even have been born then!
I could write a long list of ways in which my life has improved since 1980, both on a personal level and on a 'society' level.
Where 'society' is concerned, the invention of the internet has made me much less isolated, much more knowledgeable, much more in control of my health and not at the mercy of the NHS.
I wouldn't know about my autism and many other things without it.
Also, mobile phones/texting and email mean that I no longer have to make phone calls (including from phone boxes!).
I could go on but I might even bore myself.
There is really very little I miss about 1980, except perhaps a quieter pace of life in general.
It's an interesting question and we all have a past, no matter how far back it goes.
How is it for you.
Better or worse?
I miss the old days, where you would knock on someone's door to see if they were coming out. Or when you'd go out for the day and only see people on your return. True freedom and privacy
so basically you miss being 13 on a weekend?
I guess so.
Think it's easy to see the good parts of childhood as being the way things should be, before the tumult of adulting arrives.
I do work remotely atm which has been an amazing change, so, I am glad for that.
But I could have happily skipped the bullying, relationship breakups, drug problem, and family issues. They all started in adulthood