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“Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.” ― Muhammad Ali
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To put things into perspective:
It’s a mess out there now with COVID-19. Hard to discern between what’s a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria. For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900.
It’s a mess out there now with COVID-19. Hard to discern between what’s a real threat and what is just simple panic and hysteria. For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900.
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On your 14th birthday, World War I starts and later ends
on your 18th birthday. At least 22
Million people perish in the War to End All Wars.
o
Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs
until your 20th birthday. 50 Million people die
from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. On your 29th birthday, The Great
Depression begins. Unemployment hits
25%, the World GDP drops 27%. The Depression
runs until you are 33 years young. The country nearly collapses along with the
world economy.
o
When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren’t even over the hill yet, so you join
the WW II efforts in some manner. YET,
don’t try to catch your breath.
o
On your 41st birthday, the United States is fully pulled
into WWII. Between your 39th & 45th
birthdays, 90 Million people perish in the war.
o
At age 50, the Korean War starts. Five (5) Million
perish.
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In 1955, at age 55 the Vietnam War begins and
doesn’t end for 20 years. Four (4)
Million people perish in that conflict.
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On your 62nd birthday you have the Cuban Missile Crisis,
a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on
our planet, as we know it, should have ended. However, some great leaders prevented that
from happening.
o
When you turn 75, the Vietnam War finally ends with 2.4
Million dead.
Think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How did they survive all of that? When if you were a kid in 1985 and may have
thought your 85-year-old grandparent understood how hard school was ... and how mean that kid in your class was …
perhaps you were unaware of their life's challenges. Yet they survived & finished everything as
listed above -& more. The absence or
dearth of medical care options and the most common causes of death would stagger
your imagination.
Perspective is an amazing art. Refined as time goes on and can be enlightening
like you wouldn’t believe. Let’s try and
keep things in perspective. Let’s be
smart, calm, and compassionate – let's help each other out. WE can do this!
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Jesse Monestersky
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