Change is inevitable I suppose.

I recently turned fifty……..yes, 50 years old/young whatever.
However I still feel a mental age of about 28 -30. As my Uncle said “everyone presumes that the mind grows old with the body, but that just isn’t true………a little wiser perhaps from experience, and a little more tolerant….but not older”.
I don’t think he’s ever seen a tv programme called ‘Grumpy Old Men’ or ‘Grumpy Old Women’, where people such as Rick Wakeman and Janet Street Porter talk about how they feel about life and the things that are happening. I suppose every generation feels that it knows best, and doesn’t like the older or younger generations ideas! What can I say --- I can only say ’Change happens’ - whether it happens fast or slowly it does happen. I was thinking back to when I ’became and adult’, which was in the 1970’s , and how different things were - the career path I had chosen was ‘different ‘ for a girl - in fact having a career was different - girls were still expected to “ find a nice young man and settle down as a housewife and mother”. The fact that I did neither was STRANGE then. It was also ‘unseemly’ for a young lady to go into a Public House - except for the ‘lounge bar’, and you never got served Pints - only half pints! Mind you this was also when things like lime and lemonade ‘splashes’ were free and the closing time was 10.30 p.m. I can remember all the guys buying double rounds about 10.15 and ‘throwing them down their throats’ before they got ‘chucked out. It meant everyone went out for about 7.00pm just to have enough time to have a few rounds in a civilised manner! When they changed the licensing laws, it meant that you could then go out at 9.0pm and still have an enjoyable evening. Money also went much farther too. I bought a two bedroom, two reception room, kitchen and bathroom upper cottage flat, in 1981 for about £17,500.00 - which was then a large amount of money, [ but sold it just at the start of the ‘boom’ in 1989 for £38,000.00 sometimes I wished I had kept it and just rented it out - it would have been in the six figure mark by now , as it had a cottage feel and had countryside views from every window, but was only ten minutes drive from the nearest town!