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[Desertdi]

 I keep wondering what could top THIS..........a world depression with giant locusts???

[KarenQVC]

@Desertdi Didn't you read yet about the Asian Murder Bees, or is it wasps?  I'm serious--reported today.

[Puppy Lips]

My only thoughts about the future were what I thought it would be like to be an adult. I thought I would have all the money I needed. I thought I could do what I wanted, within reason. I thought my kids would handle their own problems. I was wrong on all accounts. I thought being an adult would be great. Now I think being a kid, going to school, and playing with friends sounds pretty awesome.

[Desertdi]

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@KarenQVC wrote:

@Desertdi Didn't you read yet about the Asian Murder Bees, or is it wasps?  I'm serious--reported today.

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@KarenQVC    OH  NO..........and on top of that, I'm TERRIFIED of bees.

[hckynut]

@jellyBEAN 

Never been one to look very far into the future. When young my looking ahead was moving out of Public Housing Projects and into a house.

Then it was saving the money from my jobs to buy a car. Couldn't wait to turn 16 so I could get my drivers license and go racing on legal Drag Strips around the close cities and states.

Based pretty much my whole life on living in the present, not looking beyond another weekend to go racing. In the winter is was pretty much all ice skating/ watching and playing hockey games.

Now at close to 81 and during this virus? I look only to having another tomorrow, along with staying as physically fit as possible to resume my ice skating once again. 

Said it here many times. I have followed this saying most of my life:

"Man was born to live, not to prepare for life"! 

Through many life threatening illnesses I have never changed that outlook, and this virus has not and will not change that way of looking at my future.

hckynut(john)

[jellyBEAN]

Looking back as an adult at my younger years, I could recall being in Kindergarten class.  It was Nov. of '63.  Someone came to our classrom door to speak w/our teacher.  At 6 years old at this time, I can recall there being something wrong.  I was too young to know what it was, but I could sense something had happened.  Of course years later, looking back, it was the day JFK was shot.  Even as a little kid, who never watched any news, or knew much about Presidents and such, something was wrong, you could just sense it.  Something in the air.

Sure we had air raid drills, we all had to go out into the hallways, stand facing the wall with our head in our hands.  Talk about protection!!  There were always "things" that happened, but as a kid then, it didn't really affect us.  Maybe today, the little ones are aware, and know something is wrong, but they are just too young to really understand.

I also recall seeing 'Planet of the Apes' when it came out in theaters.  The ending was very futuristic, with the Statue of Liberty being buried among the rubble on the planet.  A few humans had survived, but basically the planet had been taken over by apes.  And it was Earth.  I am not one for science fiction, believe it or not, but somehow that ending always intrigued me.  It was Earth and it had been taken over because Man had failed.

Just makes me wonder.......Sorry, don't mean to be morbid on a Sunday morning, but this is all very interesting to me.  I guess I have too much time on my hands. 

[jellyBEAN]

On Microsoft News there is an article showing photos of 49 landmarks across the world, all lit up in blue for the healthcare workers, and lit up in their country's flag colors - it really is heartwarming so view these photos if you get a chance.  (sorry I don't know how to post a link)

Last thing I will say is that after looking at these photos, from all across the world, if somehow, someday, this pandemic doesn't somehow bring the world together.  It can't be done by one man, one country or super power, it has to be done as a whole.  Maybe when the dust settles and begins to clear, the Earth as a whole, will be a better place.

That's my hope for the future.

[Isobel Archer]

So interesting.  Just read an article about more of the "silver lining" of the virus.

Since - as it predicts - we will have another Great Depression - maybe even worse this time - this is a great opportunity for another New Deal - this time Green.

We can have massive government handouts for those who lost jobs and we can also spend massive amounts for Green improvements.

We can abolish gasoline driven cars.  Those still working - can mostly work from home - and everyone else can drive electric cars when they leave their solar powered houses.

No worries about cost.  And the air will be so much cleaner.  

[AngelPuppy1]

The Jetsons was really a favlorite of mine.  I truly loved it and I also thought --- yes, in my future, when I grow up, I bet my world will be similar to this.  How wonderful!  I really thought we'd be flying around in our own little cars for one thing.  We'd travel to different galaxies for vacations. I imagined our whole bodies being scanned through a diagnostic machine --- like they do with cars. We'd get a print-out and it would should us every system in our body and everything that was right and wrong and how it could be fixed.  I remember the Foodaracacycle!!! Don't know how that was spelled.  But thought --- how great!  Just push a button and you can have any food you want.  And, of course, there was Rosie --- she was amazing!!! And automatic cleaning.  Of course, there are Roomba's now, but not quite the same thing.

I did not think that my so-called golden years would involve a pandemic and that I would pretty much have to be secluded and stay nearly 24-7 in my home.  Just praying that I will have a few years left to live fairly normally without this virus and all the restrictions. 

[LindaSal]

@jellyBEAN  Interesting post.  I actually was 3 years old when Kennedy was shot so we are close in age.  I have a painted glass from the world's fair in 1964, my parents had gone to that!   As far as wondering what the future would hold for me....... Well I didn't marry the man I always thought I would (thankfully) LOL.   I have two kids instead of the 4 or 5 I thought I would have (thankfully) and I never thought I would go through a serious case of breast cancer and survive (thankfully).  I guess what I am getting at is life has been full of surprises, but I truly am thankful for all I have been blessed with and appreciate each day