Life is always Evolving

I don't know how the topic came up, but my Dad once told a story, while we sat around the table, at my grandparent's, one Thanksgiving holiday, of the bathhouses he used to use as a young man.

It wasn't until high school that their home had the luxury of indoor plumbing! I was astonished, as I had always grown up in a home with a bathroom, and it was hard for me to imagine, not having a bathroom in my home.

 I can remember looking at my father and wondering how he could possibly have lived that way. Running down the street, just to take a shower. I suppose it was the norm for him, as it was for many in those days. 

If you think about it, every generation has its version of indoor plumbing; something that the next generation can't remember a time that they had to live without.

For me, it was indoor plumbing.

For my daughter it's computers, cellphones, and TV remotes, things of technology mostly. Although I'm sure that over the years, there were other things, that she was amazed that we didn't always have, as was I. 

We are constantly evolving, thinking that the next great piece of technology, will be with us forever. Show someone under 20 years of age, a rotary phone, and watch the look you get. They will look at you as if you've shown them some sort of alien technology. 

We march ahead. Marveling at each new offering, as it promises to make our lives easier. And mourning the loss of the gadgets left in the wake. 

There was a time in my younger years, that I sold pagers. That technology, like many others, has just been replaced by something bigger and better. Where it stops, I don't know. 

The world is ever-changing. It seems, faster and faster every day. The one constant, they say, is change, embrace it