It is such an interesting thing when we get to this point in our lives. An old friend came over to visit yesterday. We both agreed we were so happy being this age in our life. We could not imagine being in our 20's and trying to live in this world. But then I realized that at some point in our past our parents said the same thing.
We have tunnel vision! I'm watching a new series called "Matlock" with Kathy Bates and it's very good. She is continually playing up the illusion she is a little old lady that is a little slow with technology and other aspects of life. This is played out when she and her fellow interns (both in their 20's) get the name of a possible lead, She states it will take forever to chase down the name as one of the interns is entering data in his phone. After about twenty seconds, he turns to the other two and gives the full name and address. Matlock just looks with astonishment and says "How did you do that?"
Imagine what it must be like to be twenty and have the whole world as your oyster. In our generation a huge rite of passage was getting a driver's license. It opened the world up for us.
Today it is getting a personal cell phone. Suddenly there is magic ranging from rides to food to information. They trust the process. And if they believe it is a friendly universe, they go through the world in a different way. They are a little more vigilant about what is going on around them. They trust yet are careful in doing it. Technology is their friend.
I've always thought that when we first leave our house of origin, we are often filled with fear and trepidation about the unfriendly, unsafe world. But it is because we don't trust the universe.
A friendly universe means when we get out into it for the first time we are excited by the limitless possibilities we have ahead for us. We can do anything.
History repeats itself. When we look back we hear the words of Socrates some 2500 years ago complaining about the younger generation and how the world is going to hell.
I am just thankful that there are helpers in our world to teach this old dog new tricks. The massive amount of 'new' information is designed to make things easier to do and more efficient. We can easily see it as a foreign language or an obstacle. The number of tutorials to see on-line is limitless and each video can teach us something new.
Thank God we have opportunities in this faster world to view it from our vision, not to dive into the midst of it. A classic case is to "Be in the world, but not of the world. This way we remain who we are and don't try to fit ourselves in someone else's niche.
I finish with a quote I use often from Oscar Wilde who said, "Be yourself; everyone else is taken"...............
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