I wouldn't want to be under 30 years old right now

Why?

It was hard enough to survive Nixon and Watergate when I was in my early 20s and having to part with the Republican party permanently even though my father and grandfather and possibly Great Grandfather were also Conservative Libertarian Republicans too. Then on top of this I had to survive leaving my childhood religion, breaking up with the girl I intended to marry and everything else.

So, like many young people today my life and my future was turned completely upside down and I found myself with nowhere to go.

I remember moving to Poway with my parents after living on my own in the Hollywood Hills and in Venice, California and so I drove my car to the beach at La Jolla and I walked down the beach there and I felt 'out of place and out of time' and I really didn't see how I was going to stay alive through the changes then in my life. "I was a stranger in a strange land" there in La Jolla at the beach because I had been raised over 100 miles north in the Los Angeles Area from ages 6 through 21. So, here I was in my 20s wondering how in the world I was going to stay alive through all the changes to my young life.

Eventually, I returned to college to Palomar College in San Marcos where I had probably the best college experience of my life. Eventually I also went to UCSC in Santa Cruz to finish up my education but that was much later. But, Christmas time of 1969 was the time when I most wanted to end my life because of all the changes. And surviving that time was the hardest of any of the times that followed in trying to stay alive.

Likewise, I wouldn't want to be under 30 years old and single now for all the money in the world because I cannot even imagine trying to save my own life during these times and being under say 25 and single.

The problem years are likely 15 to 25 years of age would be the very hardest to physically, mentally and emotionally to actually survive during these times.

However, if you can figure out a way forward just imagine how strong you will be and you could survive almost anything you face in the future.

There is a saying that I think is very appropriate now:

"ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T KILL YOU TENDS TO MAKE YOU STRONGER".

I have found that generally this is almost always true by the way.

So, soldier on and you might have a life you love at some point in the future!

By God's Grace