I am not bitter. At all.
My family has been involved with every war this country has fought. I appreciate those who have suited up and done their duty.
What I shake my head at is the folks who refuse to see how wonderful this country is TODAY. It was not better in the past. It was different. It was porobably more comfortable for some. And based on the ages of the posters here, those days were the days of your youth.
But the seeds of your youth have grown into the reality of today. Everyone thinks it was better when they were kids. I get that.
I am firmly in middle age. I think back to the mid sixties and seventies with a certain nostalgia. But I don’t think they were “better times” than my kids childhood.
I know that no one on FR watches TV, or reads the newspaper, or go to the movies. I laugh when I read that. Cable and Satellite penetration numbers just don’t support those claims.
I won’t disrupt the nostalgia fun-fest here again. I understand how the elderly like to look back because they are afraid of looking forward.
There are very few shows I watch. I have music choice channels and I watch/listen to those. I do not watch or listen to the news. I find everything I need to know from the Internet and that includes emails from different groups, and Facebook. I go to newspaper sites to read some news but I try to read the comments on those sites, too. I use to take our local paper but even it has gotten liberal. I also read a lot and have over 200 books on my iPad. Some of my favorite authors are. William W, Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone, Grace Livingston Hill, Lee Child, and others. I have loved reading ever since I learned how.
If I happen to meet you at a party, I think I’ll just go home.
“afraid of looking forward”
It could be that clarity of vision improves with age. Sometimes with enough history to look back at it can be a little scary to see where the future might well be heading.
I’m sure my parent’s generation saw the same...and they were right. Like I have already said...some things today are better...some not so much.
My word. I did not know someone on here is a mind reader. Wow! Sure we “elderly” like to talk about the past just like we all listened to my mom for many years. I wish I had paid a lot more attention to what she said. I feel sorry for people who do not or can not remember the past. That is how my family keep our dead loved ones “alive”. We all loved hearing about the time my mom and her siblings got into the medicinal whiskey her dad kept. It seems like they drank some including the baby. They OT n the porch and one said, “let me off this house so I won’t be dizzy.”. There was another time when an older kid got the horses and wagon to take the others for a ride. They hit a bump, spooked the horses and tossed kids everywhere. The way she described it, I could see it happening. Wonderful memories. I am so glad my daughter heard her stories.