George Rebane
I received the following reflection from a friend who received it from another friend. Apparently, this piece has been going around a bit. I share a slightly edited version of it because it reflects the view of so many of us still alive after having already lost most of our longtime friends and now going through a sequence of health crises, one of which will inevitably nail us. But oh, what a time we have had and what we have witnessed over these very special decades in the course of human events.
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We grew up in the 40s-50s-60s.
We studied in the 50s-60s-70s.
We dated in the 50s-60s-70s.
We got married and discovered the world in the 60s-70s-80s.
We ventured into the 70s-80s.
We stabilized in the 90s.
We got wiser in the 2000s.
And went firmly through the 2010s.
Turns out we've lived through NINE different decades..
TWO different centuries...
TWO different millennia...
We have gone from the telephone with an operator for long-distance calls to video calls to anywhere in the world, we have gone from slides to YouTube, from vinyl records to online music, from handwritten letters to email and WhatsApp..
From live matches on the radio, to black and white TV, and then to HDTV...
We went to Blockbuster and now we watch Netflix...We got to know the first computers, punch cards, diskettes and now we have gigabytes and megabytes in hand on our cell phones or iPads...
We wore shorts throughout our childhood and then long pants, oxfords, Bermuda shorts, etc. We dodged infantile paralysis, meningitis, H1N1 flu and now COVID-19..
We rode skates, tricycles, invented cars, bicycles, mopeds, gasoline or diesel cars and now we ride hybrids or 100% electric...
We have seen the dawn of a new age when our machines are becoming smarter than us in all our endeavors.
Yes, we've been through a lot but what a great life we've had! They could describe us as "exennials" people who were born in that world of the fifties, who had an analog childhood and now a digital adulthood.
We're kind of Ya-seen-it-all.
Our generation has literally lived through and witnessed more than any other in every dimension 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 is UNIQUE. Here's a precious and very true message:
TIME DOES NOT STOP! Life is a task that we do ourselves every day. When you look, it’s already six in the afternoon; when you look, it's already Friday; when one looks, the month is over; when one looks... the year is over; when one looks... 50, 60, 70 and 80 years have passed!
When you look... we no longer know where our friends are. When you look... we lost the love of our life and now, it's too late to go back.
Do not stop doing something you like due to lack of time. Do not stop having someone by your side, because your children will soon not be yours, and you will have to do something with that remaining time, where the only thing that we are going to miss will be the space that can only be enjoyed with the usual friends. This time, unfortunately, never returns. That day is today!
WE ARE NO LONGER AT AN AGE TO POSTPONE ANYTHING
Always together, Always united, Always brothers/sisters, Always friends. The happiest people don't have everything, they just make the best of everything!!
Hopefully, you have time to read and then share this message... or else leave it for *Later* and you will see that you will never share it! Pass it on to your best friends. Don't leave it for later.
Scattershots – 1dec23
George Rebane
In the Desantos/Newsom debate last night the California governor demonstrated to all what kind of a sleazebag politicians he and his ilk are. Newsom did not give a straight answer to a single question asked of him – all of his responses were prevarications or more bald-faced lies. Moderator Hannity illustrated many of his questions with data from various government agencies that compared and contrasted Florida and California. The only good things California has left to recommend it appears to be the scenery and weather. All of its public policies, overwhelmingly put in place by Democrats, have done nothing but promote an exodus of workers and companies, having left behind a list of what best may be described as shithole cities in the once Golden State.
Expatriate Californians are not welcome in red states. This has become clear in news stories and reports from our friends who have sought greener pastures elsewhere. Arriving Californians find themselves shunned by the longtime residents of their destination states. The fear that the rest of the socially non-polluted country has is that our emigrants bring with them the dreaded ideologies for which California is now notorious. Unfortunately, quite often such fears are misplaced because many (most?) Californians in their new homes arrive there to enjoy and preserve the values, mores, and social policies they find. Shunning newcomers without first vetting them also allows insular leftwing cliques of immigrants to form and begin politically polluting their new nests. A better policy would be to at least attempt assimilation of the newcomers. I have yet to find a leftwinger contemplating a move who understands what has put our state into its dire straits. And those concentrations already ensconced in red states are notorious for aggressively working to degrade the social fabric of their new homes.
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