A Great Awakening

My world is so different from the one my parents lived in. Sure...quite a bit is similar...but things have changed and will continue to do so. The world I live in is nothing like the world my grandparents grew up in. With me in college now, and my mom in college in the 1980's, and my grandparents in college in the 1960's...we have all seen a different world...and through different eyes. Of course I don't know what it was like to have been my age in either of those time periods...but I can imagine. In the 1960's an old person was 50...in the 1980's women were just being to broaden the workforce from secretaries and menial assistants, to CEO and presidents. I had a teacher older than my grandparents at the University of Memphis. At 75, she could have taught either one of my grandparents in high school or even college...and the thought of someone that age teaching back then was unheard of. What does the future hold? Will we have employees and employers in their 80's? Their 90's? Will it not seem that strange? Will we have experienced financial highs and lows that were seen in the 1970's, 80's, and 90's? Will technology change on a daily basis...as we have new gadgets and electronics pushed on us every month? Will change ever end? I don't think so...and I don't think it can be predicted; Only charted.

I'm doing well on my early to bed, early to rise schedule. Today I was very productive. I am trying to build a routine...if for nothing else than my own sanity. I am still ironing out some "kinks" with the whole school thing.