{"id":212,"date":"2023-06-16T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-gainfully-unemployed-retirement-blog.net\/?p=212"},"modified":"2023-06-16T20:44:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T20:44:40","slug":"changes-past-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-gainfully-unemployed-retirement-blog.net\/?p=212","title":{"rendered":"How Things Change!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cIsn\u2019t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.\u201d<\/strong> (<strong>C.S. Lewis)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Things do change, in big and small ways. Here&#8217;s a little thing. It is not too long ago that <strong>kale<\/strong>&#8211; that tough leafy cabbage-y plant- was only used as a garnish on your restaurant dinner plate. Kale was supposedly edible, but most people really did NOT eat it much, at least not like now. Today, kale is everywhere. It is snuck into foods where it was never seen before. That bitter leaf (now it\u2019s called tangy!) is used in all sorts of dishes.&nbsp; Kale rice bowls, kale smoothies, kale Caesar salad, baby kale with Mac and cheese.&nbsp; There is even\u2026I am not making this up\u2026 <em>apple kale cake with apple icing<\/em> (see Kate Hackworthy\u2019s Sept 6, 2021 recipe from veggie <a href=\"http:\/\/desserts.com\"><strong>desserts.com<\/strong><\/a> if you do not believe me). Despite all the buzz over trendy kale, I still don\u2019t like the taste- no matter how much calcium, vitamin C and K1 is in the stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trendy kale reveals a bigger thing though- it is the tip of the iceberg of today\u2019s health\/fitness\/gym culture. The rise of today\u2019s fitness culture is needful, by the way- there have been some alarming changes over the years. In 2016 the CDC estimated that 40% of US adults and 19% of its young people were obese. In the US, we now <em>eat out a lot<\/em>, and <em>portion sizes<\/em> are way up (compared to many other countries). Plus Americans guzzle way too many sugary beverages. In 1950 the annual soda consumption for a person was 10.8 gallons- by 2005 it had risen to a whopping 49.3 gallons per person. (Maybe I do need that kale smoothie after all\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another small thing- <strong>tattoos<\/strong>. They are everywhere, seen on all age groups. Both men and women sport tattoos in the US- ornate, colorful, snakes and skulls, pictures of departed beloved- the bigger the better. Tattoos used to be relegated to sailors, whalers and navy folk. Their tattoos recorded travels or service- anchors, North stars, swallows, hula girls, dragons or even their ships.&nbsp; My father-in-law had a fuzzy blue anchor tattoo on his upper arm- a shore leave souvenir from his WWII Navy days in North Africa.&nbsp; Some professions still do not allow visible tattoos on their employees. And body art does not go over well in places like Japan, Iran, UAE, or China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> But opinions regarding tattoos are changing.&nbsp;Maybe it is not a bad thing to recognize tattoos as a form of artful self-expression and confidence by the tattooed.  (Even science is studying tattooing to find ways to make vaccines more effective).  There are physical benefits to tattoos. Wearers say getting tattoos improves immunities, reduces stress and migraines (due to raised levels of immunoglobulin A, reduced levels of cortisol, etc.).  While getting one is not high on my list, tattoos are still fascinating and often beautiful. Who does not want more beauty in the world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Technology is how society has changed the most. Take the mini-computers\/cameras that are <strong>cell phones<\/strong>. For good or bad, they are everywhere, used by the smallest of children. In the film <em>\u201cA Man Called Otto\u201d<\/em> a man accidentally falls onto some train tracks as a train approaches the station. Rather than anyone in the surrounding crowd helping him, everyone takes out their cell phones to video it. Incredulous senior grouch Otto is the only observer (without a cell phone) that rescues the man. Spoiler alert, Otto may have been old-school, but he smartly utilizes social media to his advantage later in the movie, in the form of a young social influencer he meets through this train incident. But it illustrates that technology does have its good and bad facets- and how it certainly has changed our world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So many more changes&#8230; Streaming television shows, remote work-from-home, accessible air travel (no longer a luxury for the few), 24\/7 access to information, self-driving cars, recycling (not just done by \u201chippies\u201d anymore) and computers for everyone\u2026these are the status quo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> No one remembers that people used to <em>always<\/em> shop in retail stores or malls, or actually communicated by writing each other <em>letters<\/em> (yes, \u201csnail mail\u201d).&nbsp; There were such things as paper maps, milkmen, full-service gas stations and banks, newspaper deliveries, no EV&#8217;s but big gas-guzzling cars, phone land lines (ONE PHONE PER HOME), regular worship attendance, drive-in theaters\u2026. The list of changes in our society could go on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cA people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.\u201d (Marcus Garvey)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every age has elements, beliefs and trends that shaped it. It is not a bad idea to take an occasional look back at how things were, and how life is different today. Seniors tend to do this a lot as they get older, with emphasis on how much <em>better<\/em> their old days were-(<em>\u201cBack in MY day\u2026!\u201d<\/em>).  The reality is that some things were better, and some not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But everyone can benefit by looking at how things have changed once in a while. Such contemplation helps with ideas of what you still want to accomplish, what was worth keeping from your past, what changes are good or bad for you. And then you can do something about them. A good start for me would be to use some of that time I\u2019m supposedly saving with all this high-tech gadgetry. I can choose not to let more time pass, and do some <em>meaningful<\/em> communications. Maybe I can make an unhurried phone call or schedule a get-together with a loved one I haven\u2019t reached out to for a while. If a world-wide pandemic taught us nothing else, it is to make the most of my present- with the best folk from my past.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sorry, kale consumption is still not on my \u201cgood change\u201d list though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIsn\u2019t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.\u201d (C.S. Lewis) Things do change, in big and small ways. Here&#8217;s a little thing. 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