What were your parents doing at your age?

The year would have been 1993 when my father was my age. Seems so long ago and in such a different world…..

In 1993 most people did not have cell phones as they were heavy and very expensive.

Same with laptops….in case you are wondering that screen was four inches across and could display typed characters in green, white, or amber on a black screen and the laptop had a whopping 8mg of storage…

Depending on the month you are talking about in 1993 there was no internet. Think about that for a second, a world with now www’s…..

As my father’s birthday is after April when he turned my age the internet did exist but, as I know this man well, he didn’t use it or understand it.

What he was doing was working, in sales, as he always did and taking weekends to go camping and boating which he always loved.

At that same time I was still serving our country, in uniform nut I had returned from overseas and the world seemed quieter and safer than it does today.

It may actually be easier to say what he, and everybody, wasn’t doing….

We weren’t….

Taking pictures of our lunch

Worrying about what social media had to say or what someone had posted

Staring at a handheld device (which used to be called a phone) 24 hours a day

Being monitored by everything that plugs into a wall or had a battery

Weren’t making “online” friends

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I could go on and on and on and those of you in your 20’s won’t believe the things we didn’t have or that most of us in our 50’s still think it was a better world, but we do…..