Should we wish?
diver dan,
Only with the drugged to the eyeballs morons ! And, don't be too impatient, it's already well underway !
I feel sorry for the new kids though having to live with such parents.

I am far more positive about the young of today. The old glue pots on the forum have had their day, and can cry into their portage as much as they like. The truth is we old folks were not such a roaring success during our tenure of the mud heap. With wars and famine, injustice and discrimination we didn't do all that well looking after things ourselves. All I can say is, suck it in fellas, hopefully the young will learn from our mistakes and they will be a more caring and sharing people than we ever were.

As for what to do in the twilight years, for me besides the necessary forays into the community for this and that reason, pick up supplies, see friends, community activities, exercise etc etc. Home time is for reading (love reading new books from the library), gardening, general "to-do" jobs around the house, cooking (I love to cook), watching TV, the ABC is my preferred option, but do watch a little bit of the commercial channels. I can't wait for the time when boarders are open once again and travel is back on the agenda, friends and family in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra are a must, internationally we miss our boy in Fiji, and our Fijian "family", a trip to see the whanau in Aotearoa, there is still much traveling still to do for us.

Dear Paul,

We've recently heard about the deaths of several
close friends and the reality is beginning to
sink in on how fragile life really is when
friends start leaving us at such a quick rate.
We need to grab life with both hands and make
the most of the time we have left

Unfortunately Paul, these kids are too young to have witnessed the disasters of socialism & Communism. All reference to the millions who were killed in the regular purges, starved on Collective farming ideological catastrophes on in cities when the food ran out, or died trying to escape over the Berlin wall has been wiped from history by ratbag socialists, thus they have no idea of the real world.

It is a real pity that my grand kids are going to have to relive the worst of the 20Th century because they are denied an understanding of where socialism & communism inevitable lead. These fool kids, "reporters" who think they are so smart with their heads filled with rubbish by lefty universities will unfortunately not see it coming, until it is too late to stop it.

When Trump built a wall, it was to try to keep gate crashers out. When the communists built one it was to try to keep their citizens in. Says it all really.

Hasbeen,

Before you continue to blame the so called "kids"
how about you take a good look at what really
happened and who was responsible for the
"cold war" in the past. Roosevelt and Churchill
contributed greatly to Stalin's power at the Yalta
Conference and gave him many concessions and
control.

Also what are the Confucius Institutes doing on our
university campuses? They're part of Communist China.
And who allows them to be here?

Blaming our kids for everything is simply not fair.

who was responsible for the "cold war"
Foxy,
Socialists !