ROFLMAO

I know exactly how you feel Tess. I have been down the same path and even beyond. And as your prospective has changed over the decades, so has mine. The points of you ‘deprivity’ [got that word from my Lixtionary] are jokes to me in the same way your kids ‘privilege’ are to you. I’ve even gotten to the plateau with reflection in both directions and truly wonder how my parents and grandparents truly functioned on a daily basis.

I’ve come to the conclusion that it was no worse from their prospective of the time than ours was for us in whatever our time point was. We actually felt pretty cool about ourselves and the ‘modern day’ we lived in. And we now look back with some fondness to the common implements of our youth. There is no question that technology available to the ‘common person’ has continued to accelerate since the end of WWII and each age group readily accepts their environment as the standard nor. Only with the compounding broadening of comparison can we gage a change.

When you laughed at you 15 channel cable TV, I had to chuckle with memories of the round, 8-10 inch, black and white Fuzzy Vision that first entered our home. My parents were as proud of that as my grandparents had had been of acquiring a way to light up a room by turning a switch and having their own box of crackling sounds.

I have a hunch your kids can’t imagine using a telephone that had you ‘tethered’ to the wall any more than you can recall a phone that took two hands to use or the fact you used it when the other ‘party’ wasn’t on the line.

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