You'll never understand how I and over 11 million others from my era viewed the world as it used to be. A lifelong friend and next-door neighbour in our younger years who wrote to me recently had added in her letter that " people were kinder and more considerate " as she'd tried to fight her way out of a shopping mall without getting crushed. My friend was a school teacher who retired earlier when she saw what was afoot in the name of education.
This world is alien to a lot of people who'd experienced a slower pace of life before being thrust into an age of consumerism and greed,and people shopping as though the world's coming to an end.
You're right, Lookout. I've never experienced it, but it's hardly my fault, and I don't see why that makes it necessary for you, and those who did, to view, with suspicion, me and my world. Many of my friends are in their 80's and 90's. They don't view the world the way you do. The world was slower when I was young. It certainly wasn't always better. Those who've never experienced other than NOW, have nothing to compare it with so it's hardly fair that their lack of knowledge should be shoved down their throats.
Our worlds appear to be radically different. I give consideration and kindness. MOST of the time it's what I get back. I can't give you my opinion on the many who lead different lives from mine because I don't have experience of them, any more than you have experience of all those you appear to be tarring with the same brush. Thankfully I DO have experience of SOME of the 11 million from your era and I can assure you that they don't all share your view of the world. But each to their own, eh?
