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unstable genious 1

05/10/20 6:47 PM

#296325 RE: 58nout #296324

Dude...:)

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BrilBlvR

05/10/20 6:54 PM

#296328 RE: 58nout #296324

Thank you very much 58! Very wise...
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cybermich

05/10/20 6:54 PM

#296329 RE: 58nout #296324

My Grandfather was born in 1900..
Thank you for this post.

It's a keeper.. great message (and I'll be sharing it with my family)
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BrilBlvR

05/10/20 6:55 PM

#296330 RE: 58nout #296324

This should be pasted at the top..
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Justfactsmam

05/10/20 7:05 PM

#296335 RE: 58nout #296324

yes...its a matter of perspective and life experience...

I think the millenials and younger are about to have a major life experience, and will be forced to grow up...but not without clutching onto their entitlement mentality for dear life.

...I am afraid they are not prepared. It should be interesting.
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1iftrue

05/10/20 7:45 PM

#296338 RE: 58nout #296324

Another great perspective. Wow. GoB
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LilyGDog

05/10/20 8:46 PM

#296341 RE: 58nout #296324

Very wise words, thank you and yes life is very good!

Go Leo & IPIX!

“ Perspective is everything.
It’s a mess out there now. Hard to discern between what’s a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria. For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.

On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. And don’t try to catch your breath. On your 41st birthday, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war. At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish. At 55 the Vietnam War begins and doesn’t end for 20 years. 4 million people perish in that conflict.

On your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, should have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening. When you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends.

Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? When you were a kid in 1985 and didn’t think your 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. And how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above. Perspective is an amazing art. Refined as time goes on, and enlightening like you wouldn’t believe. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this.









Life is Good??”
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Cognition

05/10/20 10:27 PM

#296345 RE: 58nout #296324

Great post! That same person would have also had to deal with Polio too.
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Pipilongstocking

05/11/20 7:35 AM

#296352 RE: 58nout #296324

Great post!
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TheDane

05/11/20 8:14 AM

#296357 RE: 58nout #296324

This looks just like the email I got from my father in law. Only shorter and without the “Forward if you agree” admonition.