Society has changed. Back in the day, almost every 50+ year old was married and had kids. It was a rougher life. Married having kids, working hard 9 to 5 in tough manufacturing jobs, etc... to support their families that takes a toll. Job security? Fuggit about it...A lot of people now work in comfortable jobs with ac (they did not have ac back in the day)... we have more leisure time. Back in the day people were "fuddy-duddy" because they were tired. Back in the day, after working 40+ years in hard jobs, they just wanted peace and quiet. Also, don't get me started on the international changes. It has been only within the past 25 years where we ARE NOT constantly at war.
Those in the past saw ww2, Korean War, Vietnam War, gulf War, the cold War, etc.. most of those older people had someone they knew personally affected either by them dying or ptsd (friends, family, brothers, sisters, etc) Now some people today MAY remember the gulf War (or conflicts in the ME) but in the whole scheme of things it was affected a small number of people with respects to deaths, emotional damage, etc. It's hard to believe but we are in a time in history where there has been the least amount of world conflict.
Times changed. Back in the day, women stayed home due to a large part because because most work was hard (also tampons was just barely invented) . Most jobs were construction jobs or manufacturing jobs, or farming, etc... very few office jobs. Feminist like to imagine that the past was like the tv show "mad men". It was but only for a very very small amount of time. The past was more like "the jungle" by Upton Sinclair. It was a tough world and women mostly stayed home because they were weak.
Oh, another thing, people died sooner because sanitation was not as good. Things like cholera outbreaks was just getting eliminated... also, a lot of kids had polio and died of polio... etc..
in all honesty we have it good today... those that acted like fuddy duddies... no, they were winners of life. They were just tired... they are called the greatest generation for a reason... an those that followed them also had it worse than us. Old people amaze me sometimes.
It’s kinda funny. The young bucks around here can’t fathom being 50+. I mean hell. At 24 I thought 50 was pretty old. Now I know people living life well into the 80s, personally. It’s all relative really and natural that we worship youth as a culture. At 54 I don’t feel much different than I did 30 years ago. I’d like to be done with the cycle, that I am looking forward to, but although I can’t be as reckless in an athletic sense, but I’m definitely wiser and far more patient with myself and others. Most of my friends are 40s-50s-60s and nobody is a fuddy-duddy. Oh sure there are “old people” around, even at my same age. Those aren’t my tribe.
You are the way you think. I think young. And I feel young.
It’s funny. The very young want to be older & more experienced, the older folks want to be young (but wise). It’s an irony of life really.
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