Things in life you’re glad you got through before it got harder

Like a lot of people, social media. I was in first popular phase of the oldschool, mailinglists and such, and then the glory days of forums, and the early days of FB etc and it was just so great. So much of what I did, my interests and activities, was made better by this stuff, I’d have definitely missed out if I’d been even a few years earlier, I know married couples that met on motorbike forums and scifi mailing lists and I met a bunch of great friends that way, but oh my god look at it now.

DoD Dad always used to say that life was a series of peaks and troughs and it depended whereabouts you landed on them.

I do think there was a sweet spot to be born in the late 60/70,s got you a lot of good times with music and the the 80’s and the general money that was around then , well apart from the constant fear of a nuclear war or dying of AIDS.

If you think its hard now what will it be like in x years , I can’t see the housing problems being sorted and I can’t see it going back to a single wage earner being able to buy a house and free education/nurseries,getting a drs appointment on the day your ill and  getting a dentist all things that were a thing I had.

Getting my engineering Chartership (ooooh, hark at him) with a four year Honours degree, fully funded by the state, rather than a five year Masters degree, which I’d have to pay for.

Got to see the best band ever (Joy Division) when I was 16

crashed a car 2 weeks after getting my license and got that out of the way

Got over to Skye before the bridge got built and the millions followed

I managed to carry my amazing father and brother into church with incredible support for the last time while able, to then stand as straight as I could and talk about what beautiful people they were.