I was born at the end of the 1950's. I grew up in the 60's and 70's on a small farm growing almost everything we ate. I have worked my entire career with technology as a control systems engineer. I believe life was better before all the current technology. Life was not rushed. Conversations would extend to several minutes or hours, not 3 texts exchanged. Families were generally more stable because their members depended on each other and worked side-by-side. You had time to ponder things around you, to understand and plan for the future. I take every chance to educate my children about my life's experiences and they are genuinely interested in learning. They also live by technology, but also spend their leisure time working with their hands, reading books, exploring historical sites, etc. Change is the only constant in life, but knowledge lost must be relearned at some future time.
Hey Mike how can I reach you ?
That’s the thing. As a man we’ve been taught by social media that to have high value you need millions of dollars. When in reality it’s a personal decision. As I’ve matured I’ve learned what a successful life looks like to me. Moderately successful career. Still am ambitious and all that. But a non negotiable to being successful is also being a good friend, son, sibling. And most importantly taking care of myself, accepting myself emotionally and not being a psychopathic egomaniac who’s chasing money 😂 Cuz we’re all chasing money to have time. Well we have time now, enjoy that.
Better. Social media gave people fake courage to say awful things to people that they would never say in person.
Yes, life was better, we were less angry and triggered. What does social media actually do? Doom scroll seems to be about it, pointless.
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