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 s thread about smart phones reminded me of this thread.
When you've lived as long as I have you have a lot to evaluate and experience of those times that some young people now might romanticise.
'The Good Old Days'.
My mum and dad would sometimes talk about the past and although there are some areas of their young lives in the 1930s and 1940s that seem attractive, I still think that I'd rather live now.
However, as Billy has pointed out, we have choice.
We can choose, with regard to modern living, what to embrace and what to reject.