I was working today on my Squidoo Lens and started recalling all the neat old stuff that we women are prone to remember. Stuff like first dates, dances at school, what I wore to my "first prom", college frat parties, junior high fashion (LOL) and started thinking about how many changes we have had in not just our outlook on life, but on our way of thinking!
Do you remember how sure you were in High School that you could change the world? How absolutely certain our whole generation was that we knew it all and would make a difference?
What do you think now? Do YOU feel that we have done what we set out to do? I am interested in hearing your thoughts.
What about the impact we've had? Do we still have a chance to change things? Should we try? What have been our best accomplishments? Where did we leave our footprints in the sand? Will someone remember us? Is that important to you?
I believe we HAVE changed much of the world...some things are much better, others probably aren't. Space travel has opened up a whole new universe for us. Is the world ready? By that I mean, is the world "grown up" enough to accept the idea of planetary travel? Do you think it is possible in our lifetime? What about music? NO ONE can say we didn't leave an impact there! Religion. How has our search for answers impacted the world's religions? Spirituality. Do you think we as a group are more spiritual or less?
Work. WOW. Away back when, women stayed home, then we all decided we were good enough to work, just like the men. Has that affected our homes and families? Is that why there's such a trend to work at home? Moms are finding that leaving their babies to be raised by sitters and daycares may not be the best thing for the family. How does this affect the entire population? Will we eventually all be working at home, except for the "menial" laborers that have to run the retail stores? Or, will we just all buy online and do away with malls?
Do you see what we have left our children as a good legacy or bad...or somewhere in between?
Older and Enjoying Life?
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You know, sometimes it isn't only the people who get famous with their accomplishments who make a powerful impact. I know a woman who is a social worker. In her work, she has saved hundreds of children's lives, saved more from continued abuse, neglect, and starvation.
Her every desire is to bring families back together and she weeps when a parent goes back on drugs and endangers their child yet again, just when it seemed like maybe the family was over the hump.
Her life is threatened nearly every day, and she is all too aware of the social workers who have been killed while doing their job, trying to save lives, trying to help families challenged by too much of life's vicissitudes.
Yet she keeps goin' out day after day after day.
Yes, many of us made significant changes, just by workin' our passion and doin' what we had to do.
I would love to see more of those everyday stories told. We never know whose life we may have saved by offering a kind word, a little bit of change. We just can't know. It's important that we keep on doin' what we love and hopin' for the best.
That's somethin' Boomers can be proud of.
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