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Better for you now or in the past?

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over 1 year ago

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?

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  • over 1 year ago

    Personally I spend a lot of my time longing for the past, for the 1990s that I remember as a child as I struggle terribly with the pace and confusion of modern life. With the exception of places like this forum, the internet is a scary place that seems to have made life so much more complicated. . Social media is horrible and confusing and has made human beings so much more image obsessed and cruel.  I miss a simple time when it didnt all exist

    So it is interesting to hear a different perspective on all this. I only know the modern world as an adult, (Im 35) and I only know what the 1980s and 1990s were like as a child, not an adult. It comforts me to know that there were bad things about the old world too if that makes sense as I spend so much of my time longing for it.

    Im always reminded of a line Roger Moore says to Tony Curtis in the Persuaders " You can't go back to the good old days, because they never existed in the first place"

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  • over 1 year ago

    Personally I spend a lot of my time longing for the past, for the 1990s that I remember as a child as I struggle terribly with the pace and confusion of modern life. With the exception of places like this forum, the internet is a scary place that seems to have made life so much more complicated. . Social media is horrible and confusing and has made human beings so much more image obsessed and cruel.  I miss a simple time when it didnt all exist

    So it is interesting to hear a different perspective on all this. I only know the modern world as an adult, (Im 35) and I only know what the 1980s and 1990s were like as a child, not an adult. It comforts me to know that there were bad things about the old world too if that makes sense as I spend so much of my time longing for it.

    Im always reminded of a line Roger Moore says to Tony Curtis in the Persuaders " You can't go back to the good old days, because they never existed in the first place"

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