Are you worried for the future of GB and indeed the world?

No. My DGC are teenagers and are all aspirational towards professional careers ie medicine, sandhurst, engineering. They are wonderful members of society, kind and caring and there are umpteen thousands like them. Obviously different aspirations but kind, caring, hard working. These young people are the future and they will make their own paths, as most of us did

I think Monica is right really, there’s always been wars and worry, but years ago without all the modern tech, people were either not aware of much going on in the world or dismissed it as not affecting them.There were also murders and rapes and stranger danger was just as relevant then as now.Abuse within families went on then just as now.
I suppose what’s really changed is the better standard of living and what we expect.Too much mass immigration has affected housing and the NHS so lack of housing both to rent and for sale and lack of medical appointments is down to the population explosion.It adds to the pressure on councils and all they normally do, so broken pavements, potholes and social care are affected.

I am now in my early 70’s, in the autumn of life.

Have no desire to be starting out like my 5 GC, ages ranging from 17-22.

No idea when they will afford their own homes, but I will not be here to worry about it.

I hope to be able to leave them a bit to help them on their way.

Also hope I live to see a GGC or two, but it will be a very different world.

They will all get through though, I suppose, just like past generations.

We are indeed, and we'll probably both get told off...

X posts MissA it seems we are kindred spirits!

No, not really.

Not really.

I cannot remember a time when I did not worry about the world and all that was happening in it, nor was that different in my parents lives, they were born just before or during WW1, growing up into WW2. there was mass discontent in the 1930s,, which led to the rise of Nazism, the Black Shirts in this country, the Holocaust.

I am a war baby, I remember my mother describing the fear of being bombed. We lived in South London, under the path of the V1s and V2s. My grandmother's house was destroyed in the Blitz. I remember the fear and worry around the Blockade of Berlin, the fear of the Cold War and being obliterated in a nuclear war, the Bay of Pigs incident, when the whole world held its breath for several days.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, the fear of nuclear weaapons in the hands of terrorists and rogue nations.

Now we have more mass discontent, Global warming.

Global warming aside there is nothing happening now that did not occur regularly throughout the 20th century, throughout our lives and our parents.

This generation will just have to learn to live with it and, do all they can to remedy it. The solution to Global warming now lies firmly in their hands. The technology and its development, but also how they choose to live their lives.

The French have a phrase for it “Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose”. It means “the more things change, the more they stay the same”.

This is the case here