Fortune
I was born and raised in a time when it was common for students in schools to learn and not to socialize; when after school books were more appealing than phones, because the latter simply did not exist. Therefore, talking was much more common than scrolling.
I was born when we did not live in excess of things and grew up being taught to appreciate what I have – maybe that’s why I still prefer moderation and minimalism today; I don’t really need to have everything to fill a banal void somewhere deep inside.
I am grateful that we are living in times when information and knowledge are not exclusive privileges; at a time when stereotypes and roles are disappearing. I am grateful that we are living in times when information and knowledge are not exclusive privileges; at a time when stereotypes, frames, and roles are disappearing.
And what I am most excited about is that today I am living in a world where we are learning to talk about sensitive issues and expressing our feelings, we are learning to openly accept each other’s differences, and finally, we are no longer afraid of being imperfect.
I know you could list me a dozen reasons why these times are not so great. I know that things are happening in the world that leads to the abyss in small steps. I know it. But I do believe that looking at inspirational, positive, delightful things can go beyond sad complaining, gray hair counting or trying to predict a bad promising future.
After all, this positive energy is the one that leads to change. The change at the beginning of which we are ourselves. In small steps. Sincerely. Consciously.
So yes, it really does look like this to me – I was born neither too early nor too late. I was born at the right time.
© Fortune, 2020
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Are you happy about the time you were born?
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Would you love to live at another time?
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I like that i was born when life was not as hectic as these days. The old-time shows show me I was born in the right time lol
I am also grateful I was born at a time when technology was breaking through. When the jokey disk was doing the round, video tapes, radio cassettes and computer diskettes we’re being used back then.
I am also good t be living in an informative world whereby much information is easily accessible.
The evolution of being in an information age is interesting. We are in the beginnings and much is yet to change.
Arguments can now be solved with verified facts.
People live on average 70 years around the world.
It is as the Chinese curse goes, living in interesting times.
I mostly enjoy the time I am living in because I did not experience any war. That is what I fear the most.
sadly I lived in Thailand during the height of the Vietnam war. It was scary at the end of the time we were there.
I am happy here and now. Each time in history had problems and great things of their own. However, I guess I fit in right here.
As it is said, there is good where we are not. But only until we get there…
You are right, all periods have their problems. And if we feel bad now, we would feel bad in any other period too.
but this was a really good post
Thank you for reading my writings.
thanks for sharing them
would kinda like to be born after global warming was sorted…
Oh, them I would have again deep snowy winters and enough hot summers here. As in my childhood.
we have no idea what the weather will be like from now on. there is no more normal
I am glad about the time I was born but still, it made it frustrating for me as I grew and learned about the 1950s and the 1960s. I was born in 1957 and when I discovered rock and roll I was sorry I could not have been part of the teenagers of the 1950s and then I was just a child in the 1960s and was sorry I could not be a part of the hippy generation.
Really? I was born later than you and I never had a wish to become a part of hippy culture although I was a bit rebellious teen.
There are plus and minus points be it then or now.
I guess, yes, each epocha has both minuses and pluses. Still, I like my time of living.
I liked my school days more. As kids, we had more genuine relationships, more socializing, having fun …
I often say that I was born too early and too late at the same time. Too early because I spent more than half of my life in a hostile regime and too late for what I could achieve in the new regime. It’s hard to understand!
Beautiful flowers in your photo!
Thank you. And thank you for reading.
I may understand what you mean. As you probably know, Lithuania was a part of the USSR, so I was born at this time and lost some years in that authoritarian regime. Thankfully we were fist who left this strange union and I already got 30 years when I can respect my country and feel free.
I am glad to have been born seven years after the end of World War II and not old enough to have been forced to do National Service. My father’s generation lived through two World Wars.
Yes, we were lucky not having to run away from exploding bombs. Even now, some parts of the world are so unstable but thankfully I live in a calm area.