I found this on Pinterest and could not resist:
May
20
AJ B. CEO Wander | Destination Map Expert | Mom | Skier
On LinkedIn: May 20, 2022:
“For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. When you are 14, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday with 22 million people killed. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until you are 20. Fifty million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
When you’re 29, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, global 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.
When you’re 41, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war and the Holocaust kills six million. At 52, the Korean War starts and five million perish.
At 64 the Vietnam War begins, and it doesn’t end for many years. Four million people die in that conflict. Approaching your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could well have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening.
As you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends. Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? A kid in 1985 didn’t think their 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. Yet those grandparents (and now great grandparents) survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing art. Let’s try and keep things in perspective. Let’s be smart, help each other out, and we will get through all of this. In the history of the world, there has never been a storm that lasted. This too, shall pass.”
Apr
16
About people and what their lives are about?
Mar
20
I’m thinking that I will make a list of links to some other podcasts I have published so that you can listen to my other stuff as well as what you might find here.
Let me know if these links (as I add them) are valuable to you OR NOT!
Thanx for listening AND for your feedback / suggestions, bgbg
Mar
06
Either we are alone in the Universe and there are no other life forms; or we are not alone.
Either one is very scary.
Your thoughts?
Jan
10
Check this out. For only about $6,500 you, too, can have this desk:
Any thoughts?
Dec
03
Life is a count down and few of us recognize this until we are at about “FOUR, 3, TWO or 1”.
Given that once we realize what little time we have left, what would be the most important thing for us to do OTHER THAN find a way to teach our children to START EARLIER?
And, yet, how few of us think about how to help others even under these circumstances.
Instead, many of us simply do everything we can to “Get It All!” for ourselves.
Oct
11
Have you ever received an email or text claiming that there is a job you can apply to, only to find that it was a scam where they were trying to get your online identity credentials?
I have been receiving several emails to apply for a “Regional Customer Service Rep” for off-shore steel manufacturing companies and, so far, have reported each of them to my local Better Business Bureau office. I also sent an email back to the folks who offered me these positions letting them know that I have notified the BBB and, surprise – surprise, that email stream stopped!
If you choose to respond to this posting with detailed of your job scams, I will add your details to this post so that others can be forewarned.
Jul
06
“Find a Limb to Hang Your Clothes On” is a lyric in a song.
How many other people listen to songs and hear a line, lyric, or stanza that speaks to them more than just as a line in the song?
If you listen like I do and hear things differently than as written, which lines have you caught as of “special interest” for you. If you have found several would you be willing to share them with me?
And if you happen to know the Artist and the Song Title, you will get extra points. This is NOT a contest and the points won’t get you more than bragging rights, but it would be cool to share.
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