With medical science (and the right attitude) living longer is getting easier. Remembering older times is much more precious.

Can you remember when every puddle was filled with tadpoles in the spring? When there were still horses on the city streets? When you could leave your door unlocked at night? When people took pride in a job well done?

My grandmother was born in the 1880s when lighting was candles and kerosene and high tech was railroads and telegraph. By the time she passed in the 1980s she'd seen the coming of electric lights, cars, airplanes, radio, television, 2 world wars, the great depression,atomic energy, man on the moon and computers in people's homes.

When I saw my first IBM650 vacuum tube computer (magnetic drum memory) in the early 1960s, I scarcely dreamed of the internet, let alone the level of AI we see now. I'll soon be 77 years old and I'm hoping I've still got a few decades left.

The best may be yet to come but don't sell the past short.