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Stress Level Then VS Now

cwhatever

cwhatever

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Today, it is so fast and crazy, the cable or dish goes out and we freak and get stressed. Our phone messes up or something doesn't work right or even no service, we get stressed out. The pc or printer won't work, or pc at work is down and now everythings got to be done by hand, stressed out. Trying to keep up with all the new technology, stressed out.
So now back to the olden days, no cable, no beepers or cell phones or even pc"s, not much to get stressed out about like today, our cars were pretty simple without all that electronic stuff. Video games were not out, all in all not much to get stressed out about back then, but just bills and what the kids might have done wrong. We all had more family time too back then. Not pointing any fingers but I'm to blame with following technology too, it is the way the times are. More people are on blood pressure meds and other meds for our health to cope with all this stress. Life seemed simpler back then, compared to "keeping up with technology".
So what's your thoughts?, the simple old way or the technology way?
 
I have to agree.....'cept for the cars. I think the cars now days are much easier to work on, more efficient, reliable, and powerfull than back then. As for the video games. I think kids (and adults to some degree), need to back away from the TV screens, and spend a day at the park with each other. :)
 
We are expected to have it all, and there is just no way.

My mother had a set day for everything - laundry, baking, all other tasks. She'd get them done and have time for herself and friends in the afternoon. Because she planned on laundry all day Monday, a major screw-up didn't bother her. She also worked. She just didn't follow what all the trendsetters said she should do.
 
Technology every day of the week and twice on Sundays (unless there's an "R" in the month). The good old days weren't all that good. Go back 50 years and we'd all be driving around without seat belts using leaded fuel with cigarettes dangling out of our mouths listening to AM radio. Kids would be learning about the evil communists ready to drop "the bomb" on us and after school they'd be riding around on their bikes with no helmets in traffic.

Another 50 and *if* you could afford a car it would be breaking down every few miles and there were few paved roads. Smallpox, polio, tuberculosis, influenza all were deadly health risks and even so you could only expect to live to 54. It took weeks, not hours, to go any distances and telegraph was the only means of immediate long distance communication. 15 out of 100 babies never made it past their first year. Those who did survive went to work in factories by 11 or 12. If you lived on a farm, it was sooner. (Child labor laws weren't enacted until 1938). You got your news from the paper, if you could read. Less than half of American families owned their own homes.

I'll venture that though people of decades past might not have been stressing out about the internet or cable going down, or whether they could watch Netflix in hi def, they had plenty of other things to stress about. (I'm also pretty sure they waxed nostalgic for the "good old days" as well.) :D
 
I know back in the day our lives weren't peaches and cream, but we all road without helmets and turned out ok. Just kids now today say spank me for being bad and I will call social services, and in school lately I have heard on talk shows that teachers are getting more and more afraid of kids too. I don't have any kids but I also hear these things from friends that have kids. I also don't see kids playing outside like we all used too. I know it is change just seems way different than when I was a kid. I got spanked, punished, and was afraid of my teachers back in the day, and turned out ok. Seemed like where I lived back in the day everyone owned a house and now unemployment is at the highest and forclosures are high too. I guess depends on where you lived when you were young.
 
Size of the country and the demographics have changed a lot since then.

I grew up with sidewalks, my kids didn't, at the end of lawn is the street.

The helmet laws came from the kids who fell victim to that.

Lots changed since then.
 
cwhatever said:
I know back in the day our lives weren't peaches and cream, but we all road without helmets and turned out ok. Just kids now today say spank me for being bad and I will call social services, and in school lately I have heard on talk shows that teachers are getting more and more afraid of kids too. I don't have any kids but I also hear these things from friends that have kids. I also don't see kids playing outside like we all used too. I know it is change just seems way different than when I was a kid. I got spanked, punished, and was afraid of my teachers back in the day, and turned out ok. Seemed like where I lived back in the day everyone owned a house and now unemployment is at the highest and forclosures are high too. I guess depends on where you lived when you were young.
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I remember being about 8 or 9 and living out in a rural area that I would ask my mother if I could my bicycle to my friends house which was about three or four miles away and she would tell me to be home by dark. That's not today tho. Back in the day the teacher could tear your behind up if you got outta line. That's not today tho. Time's change.
 
Use it up,
Wear it out;
Make it do,
Or do without.

Parents managed. Tired as they may have been from working, there was always time for a game, a story to be read. Sometimes it was more the notion of duty.

There was more respect in some ways. We had door to door salesmen, and they never came at odd hours. They tried to respect a family's supper time, and would leave if you were busy. Please and thank you were far more common then.

Another saying "put yourself in somebody else's place" How would you feel if someone were that rude to you? You got chided for "Me first"

Do your work first, then you can enjoy yourself.

I could do without most of the mod cons - except a radio, and a computer/phone/tablet. I like the online information. In some areas, I own better books than the local library, and need to purchase online. I've taken online classes - Not available in town. I don't need entertainment like the movies as long as I can have books. I can still appreciate a well-called radio broadcast of a baseball game.
 
bobcat331 said:
I remember being about 8 or 9 and living out in a rural area that I would ask my mother if I could my bicycle to my friends house which was about three or four miles away and she would tell me to be home by dark. That's not today tho. Back in the day the teacher could tear your behind up if you got outta line. That's not today tho. Time's change.
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I hear you on that, and that is how it goes, just hate for change that stuff was made in us and now not much if hardly any is made in us, or stuff from years ago was quallity and now is just disposable. That stresses me out wondering what is gonna break or mess up next. I remember in the 60's and 70's everything seemed indestructable. and yes I'm that old.
 
WHY YOU NO LIKE STRESS!?!

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Hmmm this is a very VERY good thread indeed.

I was talking to the ancient one... the "Geezer" AKA Dad (hehehe!! :))... we had a long long long chat about this very same and extremely important subject.

It was preeeetty eye opening... opened my mind pretty hectically in more ways than one.

A LOT of things came to my mind.

For one thing... life was far more harder "physically".

For one wild example right out of the blue, there were no such thing as a highly sophisticated and brilliant out of the shell automated Robot or 10 000 of them that could ask you if you would like a cup of coffee and go and make it for you at the snap of the fingers.

This is just ONE out of a million of examples of these kinds of robots that roam our Earth today:

ASIMO - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There also "appeared" or seemed to be a lot less crime... but I don't know if that is 200% true really.

Maybe that is the truth I am still not 500% sure about it all.

Anyway.

My dad used to get "The Belt" at school if they messed around.

I really believe this should be brought back like YESTERDAY because this so called great "new" generation or also known as "Generation X" is a ******* nightmare in a way.

Growing up in this modern day world has left me pretty messed up and I don't mean that lightly.

Schools are VERY ****** up these days.

I remember some REALLY freaking screwed up stuff happening in my school. Teachers sleeping with students... drugs... sex...... very very very ****** like VERY screwed up stuff happening.

Really did not enjoy it most of the time, I lost my mind once there it was so ****** up.

I am sure this has happened in the past before but I don't believe it was no where near as bad a scale as it is today.

Just schools alone are really really really screwed up.

There never used to be "metal detectors" at the doors of a freaking school just to keep guns out.

For ***** sake.

It is insane.

Everyone works 24/7 just to break even with the insane bills that never seem to end EVER.

I am definitely no communist but ... the richer are becoming richer and the poor are getting poorer.

I sometimes wonder how freaking and freakishly accurate George Orwell book "1984" really is.

The years might be a bit off but the concept is waaay far from incorrect.

I fear that book will (or already is) be 500% correct.

I believe stress levels are sky rocketing ever so higher like never before and it seems like the world is going down a very bad road and I can only hope we will survive.

I hope I will never be conscripted for some stupid governments "dream" of a "better" world or for so called "democracy" or some screwed up politicians view of "freedom".

Like EVERYONE seems to me to be tired... drained and "snappy" today because there just is no time for even smelling the roses any more.

There is no more... honor.

No more care.

No more ... Love.

Children grow up very screwed up because their parents are either too tired or just simply can't find the time to give them the attention they so desperately and truly need.

WOW it is a very ****** up world indeed.

So ja... stress is ******* high sadly.

Anyway.

I hope it goes the opposite way I think it is currently going.

It is hard to see the light when there is soooo much crazy mad darkness...

Just my 2 cents though.

And yeah, I could be totally wrong about all that. :)

I hope I am VERY wrong!! :)

Good Lord I hope I am wrong...

Only time will tell I guess. :(
 
That sums it all up. That is how I see it too. That doesn't go for everybody everywhere but I kinda see that in most places.
 
As long as the people believe all the bull that is fed to them - you can't have it all.

Life was physically harder. You were the "automatic" - ever tangle with a wringer washer? The only great thing was you saw some pretty good rewards for your hard work. Clothes smelled really good off the clothesline. If you did the floors (on hands and knees) the rest of the family respected the work and wiped their feet.

Today it's everyone for themselves. Hurray for me and to hell with you.

I sew and quilt - I have a nice object when I'm done. I also have the pleasure of knowing I one-upped the marketing idiots since I didn't buy at a big box store or use the current colors. I pleased myself, not them.

I do catch hell from those who believe all the bull. I remember someone telling me I didn't need a smartphone since I don't use it like everyone else.
 
every body .. in all times... have monkeys on their backs.
each of us have stress over big and small issues.

aint no gettin away from stress.
 
The more stress I see we put on is on students. I mean every passing generation they have to learn more than what the previous generation learned. My professors in med school are even commenting that a lot of the principles we are learning now weren't known back then and were just accepted as that.
 
Every generation feels the same way, whether its the newfangled wireless phone or the newfangled horseless carriage or the newfangled wheel. Technology isn't new, stress isn't new and we don't have it any tougher or easier than in the old days. It only seems that way.

The generations that follow us will pine for the stress free simpler times of pc's, printers, cellphones, cable/dish TV and the internet.
 
It isn't the newfangled so much as some of the behavior. I don't think forgetting how to talk to someone face to face is much of an improvement in social skills no matter how convenient the technology is.

Go read about Isaac Asimov's Solaria. (The Naked Sun is one book)
 
zuben el genub said:
It isn't the newfangled so much as some of the behavior. I don't think forgetting how to talk to someone face to face is much of an improvement in social skills no matter how convenient the technology is.

Go read about Isaac Asimov's Solaria. (The Naked Sun is one book)
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While I don't discount the importance of social skills, history shows us time and again that the disintegration of a society is either caused by external forces (natural disasters, environmental changes or foreign influence/invasion) or from economic conditions.

Now if you are looking to assign a reason to a perceived disintegration of social skills, technology is an easy target, but I think the finger must point more directly to the previous generation(s) who found it easier to sit a child in front of a TV or video game than it was to interact with them.

The American dream used to be to be able for your children to have a better standard of living than you, but at some point it becomes overindulgence which breeds feelings of entitlement. That, IMO is where the social fiber is breaking down.
 
lunatic59 said:
The American dream used to be to be able for your children to have a better standard of living than you, but at some point it becomes overindulgence which breeds feelings of entitlement. That, IMO is where the social fiber is breaking down.
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This is down right TRUE! :)

Wow that is so true.

Couldn't have said that better myself Loony.

Lets take one not so visible or that noticed (yet) or inconspicuous BUT one very true example.

Cars.

Yup.

That is an AWESOME example.

You heard that right, in the not so long ago past (like what?? ... only 50 years ago or so???) the simple so called "average Joe" car builder on the production line put EVERYTHING into building a very very very nice car.

They gave it EVERYTHING.

What I prefer to call "The Better" generation or aka the previous generation gave everything they had and really did put their SOUL and LIFE into building just about every single car that came out of that factory!

My dad's generation gave it their all to just about everything they did!

If you just take a step back for just 1 second the evidence of what I am saying is just EVERYWHERE.

It is EVERYWHERE.

The cars of the past had SOULS... they had LIFE... they had LOVE.

Just damn CARE for goodness sake is all they did.

They CARE... adn still do...

The excuse of what we call "cars" today are just pumped out by the bazzillions without ONE SINGLE INCH OF LIFE like EVER going into them.

It is like a crazy rat race to some crazy "finish line" that everyone is foolishly and madly trying to "cross".

My generation is a big... horrible... SELFISH pile of steaming TURD.

What a mad insane world it has turned into today.

Ja sure, the cars of today are far more "technically" impressive today than previous cars of the past by a long shot... I will give them that much... BUT that is ONLY because technology has improved.

That is about it though.

The excuse of what we call "cars" of today are just ******* EMPTY... they are just SOULLESS and LIFELESS shells, and NO ONE puts ANY Love or any time what so ever at all into cars today.

And this goes for just about EVERYTHING!

:(

At least I can definitely and PROUDLY say... I am just down right ******* DAMN grateful for all the awe inspiring and out of this world technology sooo many people take for granted I see so sadly everywhere.

I look at a Cellphone and just can't deny smiling or shake the feeling of how much care... love... time... energy and attention to detail went into just making the "simple" touch screen.

I am DAMN grateful.

I think I was born in the wrong place... in the wrong time in a way... because I care way too much.

It is sad.

I was born so very caring in a world that now doesn't care what so ever and does not give a flying ****.

Maybe that is why I freaking cracked in the first place?

Anyway.

I KNOW this WILL hurt A LOT of "my" generation... but we are out gunned... out mannered... adn just down right and totally OUT CLASSED in every single dimension I can dream of.

Let's just be honest for ONCE.

I truly believe the absolute BEST of society today... are sadly... the most stressed and strung out.

Simply because ... we just care way too much. :(

And it is the worst of society... that take everything for granted... so sad.

This is one of my absolute favorite songs I have ever heard.

It is just how I feel:

Puddle Of Mudd - Blurry - YouTube

That man has got serious balls...
 
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