Back Then

This is my spot for talking about all the changes since I was a kid...what a crazy world!

I know everyone has gotten those emails where it talks about the things that were or weren't around what feels like a hundred years ago. Life was pretty simple. We didn't have all the distractions of today's world and I fear it will only get worse.

Back then, when people appeared to be talking to themselves, THEY REALLY WERE! You had a warning that this may not be a stable person as you observed a conversation with a non-existent party. Nowadays - you have ear-phone equipped people everywhere walking around looking like they're talking to themselves and they are actually having phone conversations! So, you don't know WHO is stable or unstable...until you get a little too close to see if there's a contraption sticking inside someone's ear that might be a phone...that's a little too close for my comfort.

Back then, there were "insane asylums" where people who had mental problems went to be away from mainstream society. Now, I know that there may have been some people who shouldn't have gone there and that was absolutely wrong...but insane asylums are no longer "correct" if you can put a person on medication that will alter their insanity and therefore, make them okay for mainstream society...unless they stop taking their meds...then, OOPS...they had a history of mental illness and that's why they shot up the church down the street...oh well...someone must have forgotten to be responsible for taking their meds.

There's a lot of irritating things about this world now that I don't remember being a problem years ago...and I'll think of some more I'm sure.