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?
Billy87 said: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"
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"
After I read this last night I had the Persuaders theme tune in my head for hours.
There is a tendency to romanticise the past I think.
You and I were at very different stages of life though in the '80s so that's significant.
I was a struggling young woman then trying to come to terms with lots of things in life and finding very little support available.
The internet has opened up a whole new area of life for me.