The Things I Think About

At the funeral for my grandfather the pastor made the comment and I heard it from many other people, that my grandfather was still so young when he died. He was 81 years old and had great-grandchildren. Yes, 81 is not equivalent to 100, but 81 is a lot closer to a full life than 18 is. Our years on this earth are numbered and there is nothing that we can actually do about it. I always tend to say "God will take us home when our work on this earth is done". When we have nothing further to prove on this earth it is our time to go home.

This brings me to my second thought, the wonder that we have with health food. I wonder what people 100 years ago worried about. Now we have people wanting to live forever on this earth so they are promoting food that is raised with no hormones or is allowed to eat whatever it wants. If we told people that lived 100 years ago that we were going to eat only organic would they just look at us like we were crazy? Of course, it is possible that they would not have to think about those things because there were no chemicals. I don't honestly know.

Like today on a lazy day, what did people used to do on days when they had nothing else to do? I have grown up with television, so I tend to turn to television when I get bored. But before television what did people do? Perhaps they actually talked to each other?

Am I actually saying that I want to live in a different time period? Not really, but I just wonder how things were different. For instance, yet again, we have the internet. The internet has changed how we do a lot of things. The internet puts us in direct contact with people all the way around the world in an instant. We can successfully find out news on the internet before people in those countries may know about it. This can be a problem, though, since there truly is no privacy anymore. Yet again, just something that I was thinking about.