WE ARE A GENERATION THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK.
Unfortunately it's a whole different world out there. Everyone is in a rush, rude drivers and people who wouldn't give you the time of day unless there's something in it for them.
Sad to think of how we've changed
Lets face fact, the fewer people around you, the slower life moves along, where less is more....theb etter life really is. If a person has never experienced it, they never know.
I read these things that the OP posted and usually recall another time gone past and move on....This one I noticed now is on other social media sites. This kind of stuff I guess is geared to the off springs of the greatest generation. I do have to wonder that if my parents generation had access to a internet and social media would they have wasted precious times posting this stuff, saying how great it was when they were younger......I kind of doubt that as it wasn't so great
Everybody has a story about how their elders grew up and struggled when they were kids and im no exception to those kinds of stories, but it wasn't me whose father was physically and mentally sick often, it wasn't me who didn't have enough food on the table and who quit school at 14 to help support the family and it wasn't me who lived in basements of relatives because there was no money for rent and it wasn't me who turned 18 and enlisted in the Army and found himself on a troop ship traveling across the Pacific to fight in a war, it was my father, not me, I just reaped the benefits of what he did the jobs he did to raise and support my brother and me
Sure I grew up in a great time thanks to that generation. I had woods with lakes and streams, swamps, neighborhood stores were we could buy a nickel coke a cola made with syrup or a ice creme sandwich from the drug store freezer for a dime.. Playing in the school yard, movies in the theater on rainy Saturday afternoons, Sunday dinner Italian style, all of this in the backyard of the greatest city on the face of the earth
Than Robert Moses and the City of New York decided the best thing was a bridge to connect my home to Brooklyn and since 1964 as every year from than to this very day a little changes everyday some good and some not so good
There are a lot of things that were wrong back when grew up, things we overlook while we have these nostalgic thoughts of time gone by.
I recently had some work done in my house, one of the workers I had gotten friendly with, a nice person who was also a Gospel singer and devout Christian. In the course of conversation over lunch he told me a philosophy he had of life
He said life was like traveling in a car, the car has a smaller rear window but a large front window, he said the rear window in life was small because that's were we've been but that front window is so big as that represents were we are going and we need to have a larger view
When I find myself looking out that rear window to often, the reality is as its nice to do once in awhile, its that front windshield I need to pay more attention to as that's were im headed
Id think that story that guy told me can apply when we start with this constant of how great things were in days gone by and how they aren't today
