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Topic: Tough Times?
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ukcatfannfl
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posted 05-15-2020 10:42 AM
Interesting read!!
Tough Times. Really? Compared to when?
The following is not my work, but I thought it worth passing on. Maybe we don't have it that bad? It’s a mess out there now. Hard to discern between what’s a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria. For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. And don’t try to catch your breath. On your 41st birthday, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war. Smallpox was epidemic until you were in your 40’s, as it killed 300 million people during your lifetime. At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish. From your birth, until you were 55, you dealt with the fear of polio epidemics each summer. You experience friends and family contracting polio and being paralyzed and/or dying. At 55 the Vietnam War begins and doesn’t end for 20 years. 4 million people perish in that conflict. During the Cold War, you lived each day with the fear of nuclear annihilation. On your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, almost ended. When you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How did they endure all of that? When you were a kid in 1985 and didn’t think your 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. And how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above. Perspective is an amazing art. Refined and enlightening as time goes on. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Your parents and/or grandparents were called to endure all of the above – you are called to stay home and sit on your couch
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MEL
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posted 05-15-2020 12:51 PM
Thanks ukc, brings back lots of memories … my grandparents went through all of those things and my parents went through from the Great Depression till 2017. They were tough people. My grandma had cancer bad her last few days but never once pushed the button for morphine to help her with the pain. The doctor told us she is in so much pain … my dad she won't push the button because it will make her seen weak !!! I drove my mom home from her chemo treatments (4 days) and my dad asked where she was. I said I don't know so I went outside and found her hoeing weeds in her garden. I said mom those weeds will be there tomorrow and she said "not if I get them today" !!! She was tired and hurting but had priorities to take care of !!! Of course I stepped in and helped and I hated hoeing weeds. She didn't know the words slow down or stop.
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handycat
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posted 05-15-2020 01:15 PM
As bad as things are we need to remember those who have it so much worse. Duke fans for instance.
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MountainMafia
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posted 05-15-2020 03:51 PM
You ain't right, hc....seriously, man. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
[ 05-15-2020, 03:51 PM: Message edited by: MountainMafia ]
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Old Norm
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posted 05-15-2020 04:28 PM
Totally agree with Handy!
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MountainMafia
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posted 05-15-2020 05:20 PM
Absolutely, Norm.
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clydeh
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posted 05-15-2020 06:14 PM
I often think about Jesus and the apostle Paul and other Bible characters and their lifestyle. I doubt their donkeys had an air conditioner and a heater like my car. I don't think their donkeys had a roof like my car that keeps me dry in the rain. I doubt their toilet "paper" was as soft as mine. I'm sure that they did not have a refrigerator or a microwave to make their lives as easy as mine. I doubt that they had running water and a water heater to make it easy and pleasant to take a shower like me. I think their cook stove required more work than mine to keep it hot. I appreciate my indoor toilet and how it flushes away feces and urine. I don't think they had that.
I have more things to mention, but I think that is enough.
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