MAKE READING GREAT AGAIN: They call us the oldies. We were born in the 40s-50s-60s. We grew up in the 50s-60s-70s. We studied in the 60s-70s-80s. We dated in the 70s-80s-90s. We got married and discovered the world in the 70s-80s-90s. We ventured into the 80s-90s.

We stabilized in the 2000s. We became wiser in 2010. And we are firmly moving beyond 2020. It seems like we live in eight different decades… two different centuries…two separate millennials…

We have gone from telephone with a long-distance operator to video calls anywhere in the world. We’ve gone from picture slides to YouTube, from vinyl records to online music, handwritten letters to email and WhatsApp. From live game radio to black and white television, to color television and then to 3D HD television.

We met the first computers which punched cards, and floppy disks and now we have gigabytes and megabytes on our smartphones. We wore shorts all our childhood and then trousers, oxfords, rockets, full shells and blue jeans.

Most of us dodged infantile paralysis, diphtheria, smallpox, tuberculosis, meningitis, polio, swine fever and now COVID-19. We used to ride roller skates, tricycles, bicycles, mopeds, gasoline or diesel cars and now we drive hybrids or electric cars.

Yes, we’ve been through a lot, but what a life we’ve had! They could describe us as ‘exemplars’, people born in that world of the fifties, who had an analog childhood and digital adulthood.

We’re like ‘I’ve seen it all’! Our generation has literally lived and witnessed more than anyone else in all dimensions of life. It is our generation that has literally adapted to ‘change.’ A big round of applause to all the members of a very special generation, which will be forever unique,

QUOTE OF THE DAY: I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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