Lost in the Decades

I can get lost thinking about the past. When I see pictures of days gone by I wonder what it would have been like to be an adult in the decades past. The 1910s had the Great War and that was followed by the roaring ‘20s when the Stock Market was booming. The ‘30s was plagued by the Great Depression and then the ‘40s introduced world war again. The ‘50s are often thought of as the ‘Golden Age’ because of the tech advances and the post-war boom but it has a black eye from the racism. The ‘50s also gave us the end of segregation with Brown v. Board of Education sparking the dawn of the Civil Rights movement that gained momentum in the ‘60s. The ‘70s was a decade of struggle with a recession, disco, and skating that rolled into the ‘80s which brought about cable news, MTV and the the ‘Music Revolution’, then the fall of the Berlin wall.  The ‘90s started as a decade of hope after the Cold War ended, the release of Nelson Mandela, and the invention of the internet, but was mired in tragedy with domestic terrorism such as Oklahoma City and Columbine High School. Our sordid history in a paragraph. The point is simply that though times can be difficult, the struggle we each feel is relative.  Hang in there. We all know there is a light at the end of the tunnel and we all are pretty sure it’s not a train. Let’s just stay off the tracks to be certain.  Have an exceptional weekend. Enjoy the cool weather...Go PUPS! (cue Billy Joel, We Didn’t Start the Fire) 

Until next time...