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Re: v1

but could we do without technology, does it really make our lives better?

posted by overtherainbow on July 5, 2015 at 4:03 PM | link to this | reply

Re: chuck

agreed

posted by overtherainbow on July 5, 2015 at 4:01 PM | link to this | reply

Re: cct

well there is the answer, too many different kinds of love.  but it is better to succumb to love or leave it alone?  see how one question leads to another when in the end maybe it is just better to water the garden.

posted by overtherainbow on July 5, 2015 at 4:00 PM | link to this | reply

Re: fsi

yes, you are right about the virtual world and how we are becoming more and more dependent on it for our social lives.  can you truely love virtual friends?  i wonder.

posted by overtherainbow on July 5, 2015 at 3:56 PM | link to this | reply

Re: annicita

you may be right

posted by overtherainbow on July 5, 2015 at 3:52 PM | link to this | reply

Re: naut

time seems to be flying, i guess due to my age.

posted by overtherainbow on July 5, 2015 at 3:50 PM | link to this | reply

Re: wiley

funny i miss my younger years more so than my marriage, although i am grateful for my children and the time i spend with them.  i hardly ever think of my divorce anymore.

posted by overtherainbow on July 5, 2015 at 3:49 PM | link to this | reply

Re: kabu

you have given me another post, but i think sometimes we are wise to know nothing about the world as we grow older, especially if we think the changes are not beneficial to anyone

posted by overtherainbow on July 5, 2015 at 3:44 PM | link to this | reply

Technology has changed the world dramatically.

posted by Vermont01 on July 4, 2015 at 4:15 PM | link to this | reply

Life is changing so much but not to the better even with our family and kids.

posted by Chuck_E_Ibrahim on July 3, 2015 at 1:23 PM | link to this | reply

Well it is a very misused word Jean. Family love is tossed and turned over but it usually comes strong. Mostly destroyed by money. Infatuation is called love very often and is quite convenient for some to believe it is just that. Strangely it is too easy to succumb to

 a convenient type of structured awareness. Perhaps most are happy with half-love and half pretend. I mean I could dream about the little blond who tells me it is going to rain every time I hose the front garden, but I just squirt her with the hose pipe.

posted by C_C_T on July 3, 2015 at 12:51 PM | link to this | reply

I would say yes to both questions at the end. I would also like to add that we are living n virtual worlds, talking to people who we will never see and whose voice we will never hear. A lot of people relegate their friends and family to the online world.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on July 3, 2015 at 5:27 AM | link to this | reply

I think it depends on the individual and family...what the parent teaches and what the child absorbs and does

posted by Annicita on July 2, 2015 at 11:50 PM | link to this | reply

Jean

Family life has undergone tremendous changes over the last fifty years or so - as it has in previous generations, only more quickly...

posted by Nautikos on July 2, 2015 at 7:59 PM | link to this | reply

Jeansaw

I remember those years you wrote so well about, we are of the same era, I'm 79.Life is not the same as it used to be, I have some of my own kids that never communicate with me. Divorce really is not an answer, but it is a solution.

posted by WileyJohn on July 2, 2015 at 7:02 PM | link to this | reply

I really know nothing about the World today. I find myself pretty invisible being older and quiet. Not the life of the party type. And the fun of Grandchildren is waning fast too as one family, I wouldn't recognise in the street and the other is as is normal for kids today. Teenagers totally wrapt in themselves. I adore them, I am sure they are fond of Nan BUT....

posted by Kabu on July 2, 2015 at 6:28 PM | link to this | reply