It's just very much in my mind lately that my son is growing up in a world vastly different from the one I grew up in. It's mind-boggling to imagine that he won't grok the idea that computers and mobile phones were once rare and expensive, or that shops didn't open on Sundays (or Saturday afternoons).
I guess it'll be the same as listening to my mother's memories of her parents getting a television, and earlier, a refrigerator...
When you think of how much things have changed in the last century and how the pace of that change has been accelerating it becomes almost impossible to predict the kind of world he will live in when he's your age.
To give you an example that brought it home forcefully to me, it's within my lifetime that blacks were still segregated in the US. And that aborigines here in Australia got the right to vote (Kind-of - it's murky.)
(And you already know I think you're sexy as hell - Damien's a lucky man. And you're just as fortunate to have him too.)
I still remember a friend asking his (significantly younger) girlfriend, "wouldn't it have been great if Google was avialable when while doing VCE?" ... "Um, it WAS for me" was her response. He didn't really cope so wellw ith that for a little while... :-)
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It's just very much in my mind lately that my son is growing up in a world vastly different from the one I grew up in. It's mind-boggling to imagine that he won't grok the idea that computers and mobile phones were once rare and expensive, or that shops didn't open on Sundays (or Saturday afternoons).
I guess it'll be the same as listening to my mother's memories of her parents getting a television, and earlier, a refrigerator...
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When you think of how much things have changed in the last century and how the pace of that change has been accelerating it becomes almost impossible to predict the kind of world he will live in when he's your age.
To give you an example that brought it home forcefully to me, it's within my lifetime that blacks were still segregated in the US. And that aborigines here in Australia got the right to vote (Kind-of - it's murky.)
(And you already know I think you're sexy as hell - Damien's a lucky man. And you're just as fortunate to have him too.)
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