Maybe it was because I was 12 in 1960 and 21 in 1969.
Maybe it was because the 1960s were really scary sort of like living with President Trump and not knowing whether he would nuke the whole earth out of existence any second.
But, any way you look at it everything since has been Child's Play compared to what we all went through in the 1960s.
It was the Cold War and 100 million people died in the Cold War between 1946 and 1990 worldwide. So, this is pretty scary in itself with Hydrogen bombs being tested all the time then.
Then you have the Cuban Missile Crisis where nukes were about to fly and movies like
"Blast from the past" which is a comedy about those times.
You also had movies like "Dr. STrangelove" which also illustrates the insanity of those times as well.
You also had the Viet Nam war where more boys my age (born in 1948) died than any other age in that war.
50,000 of us died right there in Viet Nam even though they recovered most of our bodies that weren't in too many pieces to recover them.
All these things and many more made us feel as young people then that we wouldn't live to see 30 years of age.
I personally didn't expect to ever see 25 myself because of my personal issues on top of world issues at that time either.
So, though I was tall and handsome and always had at least one girlfriend ongoing I still didn't see the point of staying alive until my son was born when I was 26 and I got married. Then it wasn't about me anymore and it was about taking care of my family instead.
This worked for me and has ever since.
Once I had a purpose I could actually relate to like a Yoga or discipline I was okay ever since.
By God's Grace
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