Change is inevitable

Steel has posted an incredible essay about the inevitability of change in our lives over at The Steel Deal.  It's a web classic if I ever read one, folks.

Ten years ago, Monica Lewinsky was an unknown. Hillary Clinton made 100K from a $1000.00 bet. Vince Foster was alive. So was Ron Brown. Muslims were being slaughtered in Serbia. Osama Bin Laden was in Sudan. Gasoline cost almost 2 bucks. There were no HumVees on the highway, Paris Hilton was still a teenager and Google had yet to be invented. Almost half of those online were using AOL. A house in any city cost $150.000.00. Bill Clinton was 'black'.

   Twenty years ago, Ronald Reagan watched a wall fall. Manuel Noriega was being brought to justice in Miami, Oliver North was lying to the Congress, some old bat was asking 'Where's the beef?' The space shuttle blew up, Britney Spears was born and Eddie Murphy was funny. The Dow Jones was at 6500, nobody owned a computer, cell phones hadn't been invented and a house in any city cost less than $70,000.00. Gasoline was a buck and change.

   Thirty years ago, a peanut farmer was President, our embassy staff in Iran had been captive for almost a year, the Shah of Iraq was a sick puppy and Bo Derek was on every teenaged boy's bedroom wall. Inflation was at 12%,  mortages hit 25% and gold cost 800 bucks. The most important question on everyone's mind was 'who shot JR'? Gasoline? Why you had to wait in line.

Yes, there's more where that came from, but you'll have to go to Steel's place to read it.

UPDATE:  Be sure to read the comments section, especially the second one.

Comments

[jiadiannan]

We pursue and thinking only save each lived, complaint or regret is the true meaning of life. Life is life itself, a picture in the salad, but when we are reading, painting, and the view of the storm, many things juicy jewelry us, we identify and become the protagonist in the book, in the play.