It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
It is better now than ever before, and the problems of the future are minor, compared to the Black Death, 1918 Flu, and life before AC.
In 1800 London, 90% lived in a poverty you could not imagine. Mostly they lived on Gin, a quart a day per man woman and child, and died at 42. These were the good old days of the British Empire.
Of those going out to support the Empire, half died before they got there, another half from new diseases when they got there, dying of the s**ts was common, and a few even died in battle.
The worst of times is we have more information about what goes on in the world. It seems bad, but the Crusades were worse in the Middle East, and plagues ravaged whole people. Ebola kills thousands, but five million die of the s**ts before five every year, and the death rate in most of the world gets most before fifty. In most of Africa, half are under fifteen, because those older die. They still live more than ten years longer than they used to.
Even the actual Romans, Citizens not the slaves, only lived to 42.
Over the last hundred years, over a hundred million died of famine, in China and the Soviet Union, who kept records, no one kept count in Africa, South Asia, India. Famine got the credit, but most would have died from something else, if they had food.
Now we have AC and Internet.
Being 22, during most of the better times, you would be dead in twenty years. Now, you may live three times that long.
I think that makes up for a lot of our current problems.
We have minor problems, and the ability to learn much more about everything that anyone had before.
My advice, talk to girls, be nice, and and the more bait you put out the more likely you are to get a bite.
All predictions about the end of the world have been wrong, all of them.
Be true to yourself and you will be false to no man,
but wear the best clothes you can, for clothes make the man.
You did not ask to be born, so learn some useful skills, have as much fun as you can, and you are going to die sometime.
Make the most of what you have, and you will have no regrets.