Sex and gas guzzlers.

In case you are a person born in the late 40’s and early 50’s, you may consider yourself a very lucky person.
Most of all for being still alive.
To have survived accidents and illnesses.

But there are more reasons to feel super lucky.
This when we compare the 60’s to the days we live in now.

Now we have a plague called obesity.
No way children and adults can eat and drink freely anymore.
They have to be restrictive and critical concerning their food and drinking habits.
Based on fear that otherwise the health will suffer dramatically and possibly fatally.
In the 60’s people were eating and drinking whatever they liked.

People these days live in fear to get cancer.
In the awareness of the population this is considered like an epidemic.
Too many people we know have passed away as victims of cancer.
While in the 60’s hardly anyone seemed to die of cancer.

Now we are worried about worldwide terrorism.
We take our shoes off and go through x-ray machines to travel with an airplane.
There is a general tendency to believe that any moment something really terrible might happen.
Like a home made dirty bomb exploding around the corner.
Or ultra religious fanatics storming with Kalashnikovs into our living room.
In the 60’s it was much more peaceful.
A conflict was far away and not fought out on the own territory.
And a war could be stopped by going out in the streets and protest.

By now we know we are destroying the earth and its environment.
We are rapidly making the place unliveable.
It is a matter of years and our own place will be uninhabitable.
Natural disasters are already taking place.
We know that how we choose to live is wrong and fatal.
Using air conditioning, driving a car, buying new products.
In the 60’s there was neither one hesitation nor second thoughts filling up the 8-cylinder gas-guzzler.
The environment was not an issue and nobody thought about the climate changing.

And then came HIV/AIDS.
Sex had been a party until then.
In the 60’s the pill became available and men and women could make love without the worry accidentally making offspring.
This was a true revolution and many jumped on the newly created freedom.
Conveniently, it was also in the 60’s that God was declared dead and therefore no moral or religious norms and rules stopped the viriles.
Once people started to die of HIV/AIDS and campaigns were organized to warn the people against all this free sex and to be careful and take precautions, the party was over.
Now sex became united with fear.
We live in a time that people ask to see a recent HIV/AIDS test before to become intimate.
They are forced in ridiculous pledges of abstinence and must practice monogamy.

Life now, compared to the 60’s, is more worrisome.
There are many more serious issues.
It is all very worrying, giving sorrow and fear.

This is the treasure the people have who were born in the late 50’s and early 60’s.
They have experienced and remember a time where one could be without worry.
Without sorrow.
Without fear.
Without a fatal mortgage on the best moments in life.

These days, a responsible person, towards himself/herself, the global community and the environment, can still have best moments in life though.
But not anymore like in the 60’s.
One needs to be really sophisticated in awareness and knowledge to be able to justify that a moment is truly the best for oneself and the global community and the environment.
One must be prepared to make definite choices based on the awareness and the wisdom of being able to be responsible.
So that the consequences of the best moment are not adding to the current devastation.
If so, the basic feeling the folks were having in the 60’s can be experienced again.
But through a much more sophisticated and advanced way and this we call progress.

The people, who are able to do this these days, are the ones who in 50 years reminiscence what a wonderful time the first years of this century were.






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