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Optimism

I'm sure everybody thinks about this every now and then. How crazy is it that we lived through a millennium ten years ago? Not the primitive one, either, but the 2001 millennium. How quickly time flies. How crazy is it that we were born at THIS time when we could've been born any other time since humans came into being? Not only did we live through a millennium, but ten years later, the technology we have blows everything we used to have out of the water. Cell phones are huge. Internet went from dial-up to DSL/Cable, and it got to the point ever so quickly that if you didn't have broadband, you were left behind. Now we have wireless Internet. We have the Internet on our phones. The entire world and everything in history is LITERALLY at our fingertips. We LIVE in this era. Most likely, the people that are reading this are in America, a place that people literally die trying to go to. We don't live in a third world country. Our very worst worst day on this country will most likely be better than the very best day of some other places in the world. How crazy is that? We live through a millennium, the influx of crazy technological advances, where the free flowing of information is infinite, in a country that gives us so much freedom and opportunity, in a place where things will only get better. It's tough to grasp this everyday, especially when you're lamenting about something bad that happened to you, but today, looking back on the decade, I didn't realize how lucky all of us really have it.