Survivors

  

If you were born before there was a colored tv in every home, before frozen dinners, lasers, satellites, microwave ovens and before a man walked on the moon....you are a survivor.
If you arrived before computers, cell phones, smart watches, calculators and every other form of artificial intelligence that we substitute for our brains ….you are a survivor.
If you thought fast food was toast, a Big Mac was a truck, a meaningful relationship was learning to get along with your brother and time-sharing was spending the day with your kids ….you are a survivor.
If you believed that a microchip was a small french fry or a chunk of wood, hardware was bolts and doorknobs and software wasn't even a word, then, you my friend, are definitely an old school survivor.
 In your day, smoking was fashionable, grass was on the lawn and coke was a refreshing beverage on a hot day. Rock music was a lullaby and a gay person was just a happy guy or gal who was usually the life of the party. As for AIDS, they were prosthetics or wheelchairs for the handicapped or help for developing countries.
Yes, if you were born before identity theft was a real thing, and leaders were chosen from worthy people who had a long career of public service, not real-estate salesmen or tv celebrities, you are a member of a very hardy and long lived bunch who have survived the trials and tribulations of a mad and constantly changing world. Look at the amazing adjustments you have had to make.
Take the year 2020 for example: You become a prisoner in your own home, separated from friends and colleagues, keeping prescribed distances from all people. You have had to cover your face and clean your hands until they're raw and regard everyone and everything as carriers of a deadly virus. Did you let that defeat you ?? No, you are an old warrior. This strange and confusing time will end. You will adjust once again and continue to fight on.....You are a survivor.