Saturday, 14 June 2008

GROWING OLD!

I am fifty years old on Thursday.Physicaly I feel fifty because I am ill but inside I feel the same as I did when I was fifteen. Ambitious, wanting to learn and loving change.
Change is the thing that as happened most during the last five decades.The cold war between two different ways of life as ended only to be replaced by what amounts to a war between two religions.
America as moved from being a racist country to one which could by the time this year is out have a black man leading it. In Britain we have changed from a tolerant country to one where the voices of intolerance have grown and become popular.
We have  changed from a society where technology was for the rich and well off to now where everyone but the very poor have computers, mobile phones and such like.
We have changed from a society where information and education was for the few to where we are today when it is for the masses.
I have lived through the biggest change in the life of this planet that we have ever seen but have we changed for the better.
We still have great poverty in the world, in Africa the life expectancy is lower now than it as been for decades. We  still have divisions in the world not by politics now but by religion and race. We still have a world where the few live well and the many live in poverty and hunger.
In Britain we have a society that as changed from being caring, law abiding and peaceful to one that is selfish, crime ridden and violent.
The changes I have seen are good but the change they have made to the world are not achieved what they could and should have done. .

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