Looking Back Over 30 Years To Look Forward To Life!

Sometimes Looking Back Gives Us A Great Appreciation About Where We Have Been AND Where We Are Going

I was a but under the weather the other week, couldn't go to church, and on came one of my favorite TV shows: Sunday on CBS.

The show provided a few Looks Back over 30 years, and I quickly began taking notes.

I'm old enough that I remember most of this and though I may not have appreciated it until it was presented in an overview, SO much has happened during the time since I was in college.

Three Mile Island
The Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union both crumbled
The President of the United States has changed several time, in completely peaceful ways, unlike many countries around the world
Iraq and Iran grew in military power
9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq
China grew in economic power
Women gained seats on the Supreme Court
A black man sits in the most powerful chair in the USA and a black man is the best golfer in the world

As the show continued, I became aware of some of the scientific advances (I think most people would say they're advances) that have taken place. My dad would often say in some of the many speeches he would give that you can look around the room and MOST of the things you could see were created within the past 30 years.

The Hubble Telescope is flying high
Cloning of plants and animals
Anti depressants, Viagra, Cancer stoppers
Vaccines

Words and actions and fads zoom by us and we seldom stop to notice when they come or when they go.

Cabbage Patch Dolls and the Pet Rock
24 hour cable news
Special words entered our language: Multi-tasking, 24/7, Metrosexual, texting, Twitter, Google, Facebook

The economy changes and unless we're directly affected, we might not notice… until 2008.

What do they say, it's a RECESSION when your neighbor is out of work but a DEPRESSION when YOU are!

Credit cards are everywhere
We Supersize our meals and our waistlines
People have grown, on average, 1 inch taller (woman now: 5'4 and men: 5'9.5)
Double digit interest rates, unemployment, stagflation, Great Recession, Housing Market collapse
Big 3 auto makers in serious trouble financially

And the Internet and home computers take over not only MY life but the lives of many other people too.

Gmail, Google, Google Wave
iPhones and iPods and Androids
Windows 2000, ME, XP, and now 7
OS 10
"I'm a Mac; I'm a PC"

And what about those who are TURNING 30. Do they have any REAL idea where they are headed or what their lives will be like? Unlikely.

After 21, the next big milestones are 25 and then 30.
4.2 million Americans are turning 30 in 2010
78% of women and 70% of men are married by the time they turn 30
82% of the women are pregnant by age 30
83% are in debt (college,car, and home)
Human bodies PEAK by age 30, and then it's downhill at an ever-increasing pace.

And though we have trouble changing our habits once we have reached age 30, it's interesting to point out that many people are not famous by the time they're 30 – so there's hope for many of us.

What do they say, if we don't know the past we are doomed to repeat it?

I often say that "some days seem to drag on FOREVER, but when we look back at life, it seems that we BLINKED and it was gone."

Maybe that's why I keeps special dates in my Outlook calendar so I'm reminded every year (so I'll never forget the happy or painful times in my family's life).

And perhaps that's why this list struck me as valuable.

What do YOU think about this list? What will YOU add to it by leaving a comment?

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Charlie Seymour Jr
A Work At Home Dad since 1983, succeeding in this economy

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