I saw that yesterday on a comment board on Radio Paradise. What a great perspective!

Part of what keeps us fresh is embracing the new. It's too easy to get locked in to the way things used to be. We all know people who insist the world is going to hell this afternoon and seem to take a perverse pleasure in their certainty. Through the gift of selective memory we tend to remember only the good stuff from back in the day.

But let's face it - the Good Old Days are Now. Do we really want to go back to apartheid, Pat Boone and duck-and-cover? Would we forfeit wide-screen DVDs, air-conditioning and the 'Net? I'm glad to be part of the digital age. Life continues to get better in so many different ways, but I have to be willing to accept change. Change is going to happen anyway, independently of my acceptance.

The new is on the way. Right now, someone is perfecting an invention, documenting a discovery or preparing to market something that will alter our lives in a good way. Right now, somewhere in the world, is a child, many children really, who will change our world for the better in ways we haven't even imagined.

New certainly isn't always better. Some things, like weapons of mass destruction (WOMD), are definitely worse. And, once upon a time, disco was new. But overall, 2002 is way better than, say, 1202.

Aging, change, death comes to us all. We go through the cycle of the years and the new is all around us. Even death is a gateway to new experiences. The joy of discovery isn't dependent on age, but on the willingness to grow. And getting older is the only way to get to the future - where all the new stuff is!
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