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🌠Imagine you were born in 1900🌠
🔘When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.
👉🏿Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing 50 million people. And you're alive and 20 years old.
🔘When you're 29 you survive the global economic crisis that started with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, causing inflation, unemployment and famine.
👉🏿When you're 33 years old the nazis come to power.
🔘When you're 39, World War II begins and ends when you're 45 years old with a 60 million dead. In the Holocaust 6 million Jews die.
👉🏿When you're 52, the Korean War begins. When you're 64, the Vietnam War begins and ends when you're 75.
🔘A child born in 1985 thinks his grandparents have no idea how difficult life is, but they have survived several wars and catastrophes.
🗝A small change in our perspective can generate miracles. We should be thankful that we are alive.
💫 Let’s do everything we need to do to protect and help each other.
#Gratitude #Perspective

iThink 9 July 15
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Small correction, a child born in 1985 would actually be referring back to the great grand parents. My father's mother (my grandma) was born in 1899 and, at the tender age of 13, got on a boat from Glasgow to Canada where a 7 year tenure as a servant would grant her freedom, pay her passage, and permit her to become eligible for citizenship. By the time her tenure was complete she married a Welshman who, at 17, also had come to the new world under the same arrangements. They also lived through the advent of telephones, the beginning of flight, and the whole brand new electrification of homes.

cool story on your family history. Those arrangements were known as "indentured servitude" - some people had negative feelings about that arrangement and referred to it as "indentured slaves".
I do not know anything of my paternal grandfather save for the fact (or story) about how he emigrated from County Cork, Ireland sometime in late 19th century. I never met the man and I have no idea about my fathers mother. Actually I don't think he ever knew who she was either.
The only grandparent I knew was my maternal grandmother. I do not know the year of her birth but my mother was born in 1917. I believe my grandmother was born sometime between 1865 and 1875. She told us once that she remembered coming across Kansas in a prairie schooner when she was a young girl. Don't know from where they set out on that journey. I know she died at age 104.

@iThink How wonderful. These were such resilient people, who worked hard and weathered all the storms of life without the expectation that things were unfair.

Thanks for the "indentured servitude" info. I knew that was it but for the life of me I just couldn't pull that term from my mind this morning. When you think about it, they engaged in massive "risk taking" on the promise of a mere chance at a new world. How many of us today would have the courage to do that. They clearly knew what they didn't want.

I have always had great respect for immigrants because I know how challenging it is to trade everything familiar for the huge unknown. Our current border mess is bad for us, but I certainly understand the mindset of those who risk it. What I don't appreciate is the lack of respect for US process, but the costliness of that process I did pay because I was able. I'm sure most who come the illegal way could never afford all the fees and paperwork necessary.

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This applies to so many people and so many generations.

The generation before those born in 1900 lived under even worse conditions.
Large parts of Europe were in almost constant war or threat of war.

Another couple of generations earlier and you had the “hundred years”wars and the religious wars.
Another generation or three earlier and you had the plagues, the mongols, the crusades…

There have only been brief periods in relative limited areas where there were “Pax Roma” or “Pax Ottoman”, and that only came after vicious wars.

There has been no better, no safer or easier time to be alive than right now.
And we are desperately trying to ruin it.

yes we all know that caveman "had it worst of all" - but posts like this are meant for people alive today some of whom are old enough to have lived through the WW1, Spanish Flu, Depression, WWII...
The post is intended for people who can see it and say or think to themselves how they or people they know experienced some or a lot of the content.
After all, the whole point of social media sites is so that living people can interact with its content and with each other - Right?

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