People born before the 2000s, how do you feel about the way the world has changed?
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Having had parents that were born in Europe just between WWI and WWII, I have to use that as a comparison.
You see neither of my parents had a real formal education. Mom never out of the third grade and my father never went to highschool. Yes trade school apprenticeship, yet even that wasn't a formal education.
I remember once my father figured out by himself what a cube was mathematically. He was amazed by something that I learned in junior high!
Mom never believed that man made it to the moon. Yet she herself was working on insulation parts that sent each of those early spaceships out into space!
She didn't even believe the Gemini rockets made out to space!
Mom during WWII lost two kids over starvation! She had two other miscarriages because of German exploratory surgery. Yes she was experimented on. I wasn't supposed to be born because of that!
While my father was in a prison camp, slowing dying himself from starvation! When he escaped after believing to have killed the guard that wasn't much better feed. He reached Italy at the end of the war. Weighing in at 90lbs there!
Now do the compassion!
There's no way that I can! 🤷🏻♂️
I haven't began to say the rest!
I haven't gone through a fraction of what either of them did! And I haven't had an easy life myself!
The best I can say is that our quality of life has improved. And perhaps that we are no longer quite as inhumane.
Yet that doesn't mean we as people can not lose everything that we have gained.
Life is precious! Life is change!
You see neither of my parents had a real formal education. Mom never out of the third grade and my father never went to highschool. Yes trade school apprenticeship, yet even that wasn't a formal education.
I remember once my father figured out by himself what a cube was mathematically. He was amazed by something that I learned in junior high!
Mom never believed that man made it to the moon. Yet she herself was working on insulation parts that sent each of those early spaceships out into space!
She didn't even believe the Gemini rockets made out to space!
Mom during WWII lost two kids over starvation! She had two other miscarriages because of German exploratory surgery. Yes she was experimented on. I wasn't supposed to be born because of that!
While my father was in a prison camp, slowing dying himself from starvation! When he escaped after believing to have killed the guard that wasn't much better feed. He reached Italy at the end of the war. Weighing in at 90lbs there!
Now do the compassion!
There's no way that I can! 🤷🏻♂️
I haven't began to say the rest!
I haven't gone through a fraction of what either of them did! And I haven't had an easy life myself!
The best I can say is that our quality of life has improved. And perhaps that we are no longer quite as inhumane.
Yet that doesn't mean we as people can not lose everything that we have gained.
Life is precious! Life is change!