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Chris
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As some of you know my mother passed away a couple years ago now. She was a collector of sorts. She saved every document from bank statements to letters to anything that came to her. I have been going through stuff as I have time. Tonight I went through a box that had all the love letters from my grandfather (who I have never met, he passed before I was born) to my grandmother when he was in Germany in 1945 in the military. the same box had all of my fathers military paperwork, I mean a stack a foot tall, everything he ever received from the government. a bunch of doctors stuff and just general work and personal stuff from the 50's up to the 90's or later.
What caught my attention was first how people spoke to each other back then, they truly seemed to like each other, that and everything from paycheck stubs to banking forms had little pamphlets and whatnot to help you do things like remember your prescription or future appointments and the like. I really wish I could have grown up in that time, I am 35 now and believe I caught the tail end of that time. Things really have changed in the last 30 years. Heck we used to go to a place called the library to learn things and read books, it was a blast. Technology sure has speed up our lives. Now it is a rat race to get to the end, but really where is the end and why are we in a hurry to get there?
What caught my attention was first how people spoke to each other back then, they truly seemed to like each other, that and everything from paycheck stubs to banking forms had little pamphlets and whatnot to help you do things like remember your prescription or future appointments and the like. I really wish I could have grown up in that time, I am 35 now and believe I caught the tail end of that time. Things really have changed in the last 30 years. Heck we used to go to a place called the library to learn things and read books, it was a blast. Technology sure has speed up our lives. Now it is a rat race to get to the end, but really where is the end and why are we in a hurry to get there?