Kids today think they have it so rough.
What they need is a little perspective...
Imagine being born in the year 1900. By the time you turn 14, World War I begins—a conflict that takes the lives of over 22 million people. When it ends at age 18, you barely have time to catch your breath before the world is hit by the Spanish flu pandemic, which kills 50 million more. You survive, now aged 20.
At 29, the Great Depression begins, triggered by the crash of the New York Stock Exchange. You live through massive unemployment, inflation, and widespread hunger.
By 33, Nazism rises in Germany, setting the stage for another global crisis. At 39, World War II erupts, ending when you’re 45, after taking more than 60 million lives.
Just a few years later, at 52, you witness the Korean War. Then, in your mid-60s, the Vietnam War begins—lasting until you’re 75.
Now picture someone born in 2000 looking back and thinking their grandparents “don’t understand how hard life can be.” But in truth, that generation survived two world wars, a global pandemic, an economic collapse, and multiple regional conflicts—facing hardships and uncertainty time and again.
It’s a powerful reminder: each generation carries its own struggles, and many before us - our parents and grandparents - endured more than we can imagine.
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Most of what happened and is happening was/is unnecessary, brought on by evil people who want money and power. Hopefully people have learned from the internet and DOGE and some things will get fixed. A good start would be sending hundreds of politicians to jail.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you lived through all of that and didn't wake up to the reality that GOVERNMENT is either the CAUSE of EVERY problem we face as a species, or the group that makes EVERY PROBLEM WORSE, then you missed a ton of very painful lessons. And YES, even the Spanish Flu was the result of vaccine experiments carried out on soldiers in Kansas who were then sent to Europe where they spread the virus. Way to go "modern medicine" once again.
ReplyDeleteAkshully, WWII began in Asia/the Pacific. Only the war in Europe began in '39.
ReplyDeleteOne grandmother was born in 1901 and one great-uncle in 1900. Sobering to realize that they lived through all those things, because those weren't the stories they used to tell. Wars and epidemics and "The" Depression were in the backgrounds of their stories but what they actually remembered was how people had fun, made each other happy or sad, did what they wanted to do or failed, etc., anyway.
ReplyDeleteA sobering thought: What if the successfully brainwashed wokesters of today wrote their stories and *did* remember only the big commercial-media-news stories as the events of their lives?
"...And that summer my sister had a big wedding party. How COULD she. It's like she wasn't paying any attention to the situation in Ukraine."