There’s some great memes floating around to show the passing of time. Here are a few of my favourites:

Basically, it’s an attempt to make my generation feel old. While there’s always been attempts to do so with previous generations, the difference is ours have the Internet to lament about it.

However, I look at a much bigger picture:

Consider how much the world has changed since the moon landing and the release of the Lion King vs. the release of the Lion King and today. While we can wax nostalgic about “back in the day,” but I wouldn’t trade any of our gains to go back to that moment.

What I’m more concerned about are the things that haven’t changed and should have over the last fifty years.

I just hope my kids will look back twenty five years from now and be much happier about the world at that time.