Reminissing

Arrrrghhhh, I remember when……. of course you do!

For reasons that I can’t fathom I have taken to reading the comments people leave on news stories.  99% of them seem hell bent on how it used to be, not how it is now.

• For gas prices, “I remember when it was only $1 a gallon, what happened?”
• For youth culture, “In my day the teenagers were so much better behaved”
• For driving, “People used to drive far more courteously”
• For food, “Where is the fresh food we used to have, everything is packets?”
• For cameras, “It only used to cost $3 to develop a film”

Why is it people seem determined that things should stay the same while still getting better?

Older people always complain about the younger generation, when I was young it was loud music, my grandfather hated it!  For food, you still have all the fresh produce that you’d have in the corner store, but now you have a huge megamart with fruit from the other side of the planet and products you can keep in the cupboard for a rainy day.

There is inflation, things cost more, but so do salaries.  People complain that everything has gone up in prices without realizing that they now earn so much more.

I wish people would stop looking back at the world through rose coloured glasses.  They should move with the times, here are a couple of things that have changed in peoples favour, that they seem to have forgotten.

• Telephony, it used to cost dollars a minute to talk long distance or around the world, now it is pennys.
• Computers are so fast that people take for granted that their cell phone now has more processing power than the first computers.
• Cars travel faster with less fatal accidents thanks to seat belts and airbags.
• Air travel is cheap enough that you can take a 2 week holiday on the other side of the planet, it used to take months just to get there.

The world moves on…. some people need to get over that.