In a comment to yesterday’s post Shug wrote,
I think I’m ready for us to all go back to the 50’s and 60’s when life seemed simple. all this new technology stuff and Drones, it is all depressing.
Would you go back to an earlier time if you could? There are a lot of things I don’t like in these scary times, but I do love blogging and the internet. Especially now because our daughter and the rest of our families are so far away, and all of my local friends have moved elsewhere. One of my favorite cartoons is a person saying to a person handling her laptop — please be careful, all of my friends are in there.
But for me it’s more than that. For years I wanted a pen pal that I could have long discussions with, and I wanted it to be by writing. There is something about trying to express ideas in writing that satisfies a deep need for me, and when I discovered blogging I felt I had found something I had spent years searching for.
I can understand why Shug would want to go back, and I agree with her about the proliferation of drones, but losing my connection to the world would really hurt. What about you?
December 19, 2024
I have mixed emotions about that. Going back would would indeed return simpler times but I enjoy my computer. If I were to go back it would have to be without the knowledge of what it’s like to have what we have now.
…I enjoy looking back, but not going back.
Whenever I look back I walk into trees and lamp posts.
God bless.
I would not want to go back simply because of medical advances. I would miss the internet, too. But the medical always gets me whenever I think I would like to go back.
I would have no desire go to back in time. I like knowing that I have ADHD and that I’m not alone with the feelings I have. I like knowing that I am connected to a wider community through the internet. I like the information I can find on the internet. Not only that, but most of the meds we now use to make life better, were not invented forty years ago.
So often I’ve found myself longing for a 50’s America …
Then I remember all the medical advances with which we’ve been blessed — and my Guilty Pleasure, the internet!