It’s curious to think that about forty years from now, people will be nostalgic about the way things are today and how we live.

[quote]Every generation does it.[/quote]

But not everyone in every generation. Forty years ago I was 28 working for a company that was definitely going downhill. I left both the company and the country two years later, the best decision I ever made. While I am somewhat nostalgic for the childhood that I had in the 50s and 60s I really can't say that the eighties and nineties in the UK were anything special and in some ways 80s Norway was a bit dismal. I was at university in the mid 70s so for me that decade was great while other people just remember the misery of the oil crises.

I'm really pleased to have lived through one of the most technologically and sociologically interesting periods in human history from the 50s to the present day. On the whole for me life has got better and richer in almost all senses with each passing year.

I feel that nostalgia is for the old, for those who rightly or wrongly believe that they don't have much future. I'm 68 but life is still good and there are still good things to come.