My dear friend Z,
Personally I think just like a fine wine... Life gets sweeter with time. I wouldn't trade this time in my life for my partying years or my teen years. My oldest is married, someday I will be called grandma... And I can't help but to think, that will be a sweet time to. (Shhh don't tell her. I still tell her I am too young to be a grandma! Lol!)
I'm not sure, because my perspective is what seems to be changing with age.
We take a bit of time learning our environment. From the Cell phone that can now do a thousand and one things, to the TV that is now supposedly "Smart"?
So for us who are content with how things are, the learning curve for the "New and Improved" is something we understand goes hand in hand with "Built in Obsoleteness". We simply get tired of having to learn what now activates the turn signal in the new car we just purchased . . . Or why the car now has to alert us because our car is veering out of lane or brakes applied simply because we weren't paying attention to how close we were to the car in front of us . . .
Technology advances and for the most part, we should follow.
As far as government goes . . . "We the People" Let this happen . . . Not over night, not over the last two terms in office . . . But slowly over decades. We were lazy and didn't stay vigilant. 4 or even 8 years is NOT enough to do real change, but apparently 4 is all you need to do real damage . . . The nation needs a revolution . . . Nothing short of that will invoke actual "Good" change.
Better---Technology in general---from increased convenience and capability in general to specific advancements in medicine and dentistry that make dealing with the general problem of growing older less problematic.
Worse---the ability of the electorate to isolate and understand the qualities---and earmarks thereof---essential to electing quality representatives to assure the advance of American values.
Same---my journey to understand reality in a way that makes sense to me and has been personally rewarding in so many unanticipated ways. (Classified as "same" only because it seems in retrospect that I stumbled upon my way of approaching reality early on, and it seems to have been one of the best ways to do so.)
I think some things are better and others are worse. I also think somethings that have been going on for a long time with little to no notice are coming to light. As much as social media has corrupted some peoples social skills, it has also brought to light other people's indiscretions. I think there is some sort of balance. It is just the world is changing so fast these days, it is sometimes hard to keep up with the goid and the bad.
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