Lockdown for 40 days - A Little Perspective

It’s a mess out there now. Hard to discern between what’s a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria. 

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For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. 

On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 33. The country nearly collapses along with the world economy. 

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When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet. And don’t try to catch your breath. On your 41st birthday, the United States is fully pulled into WWII. Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war. At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish.

At 55 the Vietnam War begins and doesn’t end for 20 years. 4 million people perish in that conflict. On your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, should have ended. Great leaders prevented that from happening. When you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends.

Let’s digress a little and look back in this nation’s history. Prior to the 1950s and 60s, most folks lived in rural areas of the country. They either owned or worked in small town businesses or on farms.
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Life was tough back then for many; particularly during the depression era. Yet these people persevered. Many didn’t have much and they made the best of what they already possessed. They operated under the notion “waste not, want not”; folks always seem to have enough to survive.

Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you survive all of that? When you were a kid in 1985 and didn’t think your 85 year old grandparent understood how hard school was. And how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above. 

Perspective is an amazing art. 

Refined as time goes on, and enlightening like you wouldn’t believe. 

Let’s try and keep things in perspective.

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