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CONCLUSION -- Taking Inventory
A feeble, old, rich man, confined to his bed
with the infirmities of age, pointed out the
window at a husky teenager who was having a
laughing conversation with a pretty girl.
"I wish
I was as rich as he,"
said the old man.
"But he
has no job, his family has ten mouths to feed
and he doesn't even know whether he'll be able
to go to college,"
the rich man's nurse said.
"Yes,"said the rich man,
"but he has health and
youth and hope
--
he is rich in all the things that
money can't buy."
Fifty years have gone by now since the end
of World War II. We are survivors! Consider
the changes my generation has witnessed (this
is a blend from several sources -- all
anonymous as far as I know):
We were born before television,
before penicillin, before polio shots,
frozen foods, Xerox, plastic, contact
lenses, Frisbees and the pill. We were
before radar, jet aircraft, credit cards, split
atoms, lasers, and ballpoint pens.
Before pantyhose, dishwashers,
clothes dryers,
electric blankets,
disposals, air conditioners, drip-dry
clothes
...
and before man walked on the
moon. We got married first and then had
the honeymoon. How quaint can you be?
In our time, closets were for clothes, not
for "coming out of." Bunnies were small
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