Time marches on

So last night I was looking at some old magazines. OLD OLD magazines. Like from the 1940's and 1960's. As I was reading and looking at the advertisements and pictures, I was thinking about how great it would have been to have lived back then. A time when everything was simple (and cheap!). There was one article titled "Santa's Gift Ideas for Car Users". This article was in the 1967's December issue of Woman's Day. It amazed me that these simple things they were listing were so.......well, simple. Like a light for the glove compartment, a tire pressure gauge, a hook to hang your purse on, "litter containers" (trash can). These things that we think of (or don't even think of at all) as small, were actually big things to people back then. I mean how great would it be to have such a simple, uncomplicated life. I guess it's easy for me to look back and say that life was so simple. But let me explain what I mean by "simple". I don't mean that these people didn't have any worries or cares. I mean one of the magazines was from WWII. It was talking about how people needed to ration certain things and how some items would be made different due to the shortage of materials. This time period was not short on worries or cares. But could you imagine if the government told us today to start rationing meat or to stop using our computers/cell phones/etc. People would think they couldn't survive. Even I can't go a day without, at some point, thinking "I need to put this as my status on Facebook" or "I need to look this up on the internet". The whole world is at our fingertips. We can find any info we want just by sitting down at our desks or even just by picking up our phones. So by simple I mean not so "high tech", not so materialistic, not so worried about yourself but instead taking care of your neighbors and even others you don't know.
Now I realize it wasn't perfect back then. But I believe it was so much better than today. I believe you could count on people, people actually cared. People could be trusted more. Today, there's not a whole lot of people you can trust.
One other thing I found so interesting (but not so "deep" lol) was how different people look back then. So conservative, so simple (there's that word again), so put together. Then I see some advertisements about dogs for sale. Dogs look exactly the same 70 years ago as they do today :) I probably knew that already but it was funny to notice the difference in appearance of the people, furniture, clothes and other things and then turn the page and see the dogs and  think "wow". I don't know, maybe I'm just weird.

~Everyday I'm learning more about who I am. I am seeing myself and others in a new light ~