Think About It

One of the things I find fascinating about aging is seeing how modern circumstances seem to be a replay of past events.   Current political adversaries are often the ones we have found ourselves with odds with in the past.   Social issues such as homelessness, poverty, injustice and equality run deep into the past.   Hate and prejudice aren’t new, they are often reboots of conflicts that have existed for centuries.   The reason I bring this up is to hold out hope that our world is not nearly hopeless as we might think.   Sometimes it seems like things are spiraling toward an abysmal end, but the truth of the matter is that we have been here before.   Sure, life may appear to be off-kilter – and we can do better –   but let’s not give into the naysayers who echo Chicken Little’s credo that the sky is falling!   Looking back in reflection can do a couple of things for us:   First, it can cause us to review history and see what can be learned from the past.   George Santayana is quot