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 have often remarked to my wife "This is not my world" There is sooo much in the way of cultural/political changes that I am at odds with over the last 20 - 40 years. I simply can't bury my head to ignore it, nor can I accept it.--- so,it doesn't work for me. Toleration is my only option.
Yes this thread is 5 months old but I felt strongly about its topic.
There are little groups of us all over the world finding each other and self organising right now Asperger Mike. You are very much not alone.
Whether you realise it or not.