Make the rest of your life the best of your life
Make the rest of your life the best of your life
Stop pining for the good old days: This is as good as it gets … until it gets better.
It’s hard to find a measure of the quality of life in the U.S. that was not markedly lower in 1950 than it is today. In that year the median family income was $28,000, compared with $64,000 in 2013. Life expectancy at birth was 68 years, vs. 79 today, and tuberculosis, syphilis, whooping cough, and measles were still considerable killers—with prevalence between 10 and more than a hundred times today’s levels. One reason for poorer health was lower-quality housing: About a third of houses still lacked decent indoor plumbing (compared with fewer than 2 percent today), and air conditioning was a rare luxury. The homicide rate did climb in the 1960s and ’70s, but it has dropped since, and the 1950s level was higher than today’s. The year 1950 was also when the Korean War broke out—1.5 million American men were drafted to fight, and more than 36,000 died (five times the U.S. death toll in Afghanistan and Iraq).
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The amount of possibility these days is amazing, music is free, education is free, we have parks & gardens we live longer etc... what do we need? be busy, we need to get busy . just that do something find a hobby. get in shape, stop drinking do some serious reading or some serious sport.
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