Do you remember life before the internet?
Do I?? It was the greatest, I mean we got to talk to people face to face even if we didn’t want to we had to in order to get something done, like grocery shopping or clothes shopping or showing up to work. I was born in 1960, we had a black and white box T.V. That got 3 channels that we only watched in the evenings mostly the weekend. When we were entering our teen years we worked towards getting our drivers license saving our paper route money and odd job cash money from birthdays Christmas’s wherever we earned it until we were able to afford a car. We bought what we could afford, by 16 we were pretty mechanically inclined from fixing lawnmowers, snow blowers and mini bikes the skills we learned from our fathers definitely helped. Saturdays or Sundays we would drive until we were lost, sometimes a little most times very lost like 3/4 hours of driving into the unknown lost, but we always found our way home. We had a built in GPS a magnetic pole or genetic compass that helped guide us home. We trusted our instincts listened to our gut feeling had a far deeper connection to our fellow human beings and Mother Nature. We learned from our parents and grandparents, our teachers loved their job and did it with pride and dignity. Our parents rarely knew where we were, but knew we were capable of doing the right things because they raised us with love, compassion, respect and understanding. One dream of mine today is that the internet and everything connected to it be destroyed eliminated so we can go back to how we were meant to live.