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Sunday, July 14, 2019

THEN AND NOW!


Then and Now, have you ever stopped to think about what it was like for your parents when they grew up? How about when you grew up? To the life style of the children today compare it to when they growing up.

            I like to watch the old movies on TCM and I look at the fashion of the men and women. How different they are from today’s style and even different from when I was growing up. But the odd thing about fashion it is slowly reverts back to the style of the thirties and forties. The only thing different is nobody wears hats anymore.

            Even the advise we give our children has changed from when I grew up to the parents of today giving advise is very different. I remember my father telling me to always keep a dime in my shoe when I went out, then when I started dating he told me to keep a quarter in my shoe. There was payphones on every corner. Now there isn’t a payphone in sight.

            Today’s generation has a cell phone glued to their ear and a ipad glued to their fingers. Even their parents don’t buy the newspaper anymore. They go online and read the paper from their screens. Back in the old days the people depended on the newspaper for the news, weather, and the want ads for sales and jobs.

            Everything revolves around changes whether we want them or not. If we stomp are foot and say we aren’t interested in change, well we get left behind and all alone. Now don’t get me wrong, change is good, but sometimes change is very complicated, when the old days life was simpler and more direct.

            The younger generation will never know the simpler way of life and may look at the old black and white movies are being very silly and made to make people laugh. But those old black and white movies are what this nation was made from.

            Yes, there was out of work lines at the food banks when jobs couldn’t be found. Much like today, we have churches and shelters for the people who can’t find jobs. There is more opportunity now then back then.

            So if you are one to complain take a look at one of the old black and white movies and see basically what it was really like back then.

MAY GOD BLESS!

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