Read a quote and that got me thinking! It was a reply by an old woman to a reporter for his question on how the old lady had managed to stay with the same man for 65 years. And here is the reply,
"We lived in a time when some thing was broken, we would fix it and not throw it away"
Coming from a generation which uses 'use and throw' pens, it was quite a difficult statement to understand. Why bother to fix it if there is a brand new one available? I mean, the new ones are always better than the old, is it not? and the new ones are such fun to have as well, what with the additional new features to it.
May be the older generation did not have the opportunity to buy a new one, or may be the older generation had the time to mend them all! May be that generation was plain lazy to redo it all over again!
After all this debating, my mind still refuses to accept that the modern generation, the generation X, yes, my generation lives a better life than my grandfather's.
There was an unmistakable contentment i had seen in my grandpa; A quiet happiness and a remarkable satisfaction of the life he lived; And sadly, I have to agree that Contentment, happiness and satisfaction are becoming alien words to me and to a lot of my friends.
Are we to learn something from them? Ah, how I miss my grandparents now.
"We lived in a time when some thing was broken, we would fix it and not throw it away"
Coming from a generation which uses 'use and throw' pens, it was quite a difficult statement to understand. Why bother to fix it if there is a brand new one available? I mean, the new ones are always better than the old, is it not? and the new ones are such fun to have as well, what with the additional new features to it.
May be the older generation did not have the opportunity to buy a new one, or may be the older generation had the time to mend them all! May be that generation was plain lazy to redo it all over again!
After all this debating, my mind still refuses to accept that the modern generation, the generation X, yes, my generation lives a better life than my grandfather's.
There was an unmistakable contentment i had seen in my grandpa; A quiet happiness and a remarkable satisfaction of the life he lived; And sadly, I have to agree that Contentment, happiness and satisfaction are becoming alien words to me and to a lot of my friends.
Are we to learn something from them? Ah, how I miss my grandparents now.
