Pascal noted:
The babysitter to the small children: "This story happened a very long time ago. Even before there were any laptops, cell phones and DVDs."
I once saw a cartoon: a little boy asking his mother, "these 'Beatles' they talk about, who where they?"
That was thirty years ago...
I almost forgot: the babysitter also mentioned MP3 players. :-)
ReplyDeleteI was 4 when the Lebanon war started. Made me miss several contemporary benchmarks. On the plus side, I've seen and lived things you wouldn't believe. :-/
Sometimes I almost find it hard to remember that some people I know/meet have lived WW2. Many elderly French folks still dislike Germans in general, because of what they went through in the trenches. Can't really blame them.
I guess it is a good thing that some grudges die out with the last people to have lived them very intensely. We humans were not meant to live forever... maybe because we're not wise enough.
Would we become immortal if we learned to forgive? Serenity would definitely make us live longer than constant anger. Be it only by preventing hypertension.
Ed Zachary!
ReplyDelete...still dislike Germans...
ReplyDeleteI hope they dislike not the Germans in general, but their leaders and their followers.
Pas toujours, Beep.
ReplyDeleteLast year, for the first time, Germany was present at the celebration of D-day in Normandy. In all good spirit, since the nazi regime is a thing of the past. But some French veterans didn't like it very much. Still felt to them like befriending the enemy in a way.
It *was* a very hard thing to live, WW2.
Another one to add to the list...
ReplyDeleteDo you remember the days when we used to have speaking clocks you could phone up.
That's right, in California we no longer have a speaking clock.
How time passes. My father remembers the days when horse carriages were everywhere. (To me, it's nothing more than old B&W history films.) And he might live long enough to see it happen again, with the world being forced to change its over-consuming ways.
ReplyDeleteI like horses.