The world’s started to seem strange to me, and I’m just in my early 50’s. I can’t imagine how bizarre it must be for someone 145 years old.
I’m 54, it’s hard to believe how fast time flies isn’t it. 40 years gone by in a snap, at least it seems that way to me or it could just be an illusion because of memory. For example I remember clear as day spending 2 weeks at Boy scout camp in 1976. This guy though...he’s gone through almost a century and a half, that’s if this is real. I wonder if he can remember as far back as the early 1900s.
At a point in my early ‘50s I stated to look backward at my life and not forward. Now, fifteen years later, I see that there is almost nothing left of the world that I was born into.
“I can’t imagine how bizarre it must be for someone 145 years old.”
My mother is 99 and fully up to date on politics. She is still interested and has about 90% of her faculties. She saw the Wright Brothers fly at the Ohio state fair. She rode a horse to school. She had friends who lived in their covered over dug-out basements while they built their houses. She went to Batista’s Cuba.
Having said all that, cell phones are beyond her. The TV is a mystery, as in how to turn it on and off. The computer isn’t part of her life, nor will it ever be. My sister, at 72 also is having problems with those things. I am 62 and just got my first screen phone. I have zero interest in current entertainment and haven’t watched a TV since the OJ trial. I guess older people just learn the things that are important to them and not much else.
I recently turned 50 and I can relate to you. The world advanced quickly during our life time. Too quickly in my opinion.
“Dang youngsters and their phonautographs!”
That’s a very interesting turn of phrase that “the world is starting to seem strange”... Would love to see an essay on that!