An analog story

Long earlier than ChatGPT got here into the image, this scholar might carry out and reply a immediate from his professor in analog model.

A university class was instructed they needed to write a brief story in as few phrases as attainable. The directions had been the brief story needed to include the next three issues:

1. Religion

2. Sexuality

3. Mystery

Below was the one A+ paper in all the class.

“Good God, I’m pregnant! I’m wondering who did it.”

If you learn this column along with your newspaper, you’re analog and would possibly discover at present’s materials well timed and related. If you learn this column on-line, both along with your smartphone or your iPad, you’ll by no means perceive the enjoyment and exhilaration of how good espresso tastes whereas studying newspapers.

I’ve had about three or extra buddies who handed this fascinating materials on to me. This jogs my memory of the analog days of the well-known “Chain Letters.” Asking them who the author or creator of this materials is an train in futility. Each would say, “I don’t know, however a good friend handed this to me in our Chat Group;” now that’s digital. And utilizing digital instruments, I used to be capable of observe the supply of the place this materials got here from. It comes from a Hong Kong web site known as easyproperty.com.

Here is the fabric to your enjoyment and pleasure:

THE ELDERLY

We had been born within the 40-50-60.

We grew up within the 50-60-70’s.

We studied within the 60-70-80.

We had been relationship within the 70-80-90’s.

We bought married and found the world within the 70-80-90’s.

We enterprise into the 80-90.

We stabilize within the 2000s.

We bought wiser within the 2010s.

And we’re going firmly by way of 2020.

Turns out we’ve lived by way of EIGHT totally different a long time.

TWO totally different centuries.

TWO totally different millennia.

We have gone from the phone with an operator for long-distance calls to video calls anyplace on the planet, from slides to YouTube, vinyl records to on-line music, handwritten letters to e mail and WhatsApp.

Vinyl is making a trendy comeback today.

From dwell matches on the radio to black and white TV after which to HDTV.

We went to the Video Club, and now we watch Netflix.

We bought to know the primary computer systems, punched playing cards, and diskettes, and now we’ve gigabytes and megabytes in hand on our cellphones or iPads.

We put on shorts all through childhood and lengthy pants, oxfords, bermuda shorts, and so forth.

We dodged childish paralysis, meningitis, H1N1 flu, and now COVID-19.

We rode skates and tricycles, invented automobiles, bicycles, mopeds, gasoline or diesel automobiles, and now we trip hybrids or 100% electrical.

Yes, we’ve been by way of lots, however what a terrific life we’ve had!

They might describe us as “exennials:” individuals born in that world of the fifties, with an analog childhood and digital maturity.

We’re sort of Yaheseen-it-all.

Our era has lived by way of and witnessed greater than some other in each dimension of life.

It is our era that has tailored to “CHANGE.”

And so, we must always supply a giant spherical of applause to all of the members of a unprecedented era, which can be UNIQUE.

There is a complement to this text. And I want to thank Architect Jun Palafox for sending this.

TIME DOES NOT STOP

Life is a job that we convey ourselves to do at dwelling.

When you look, it’s already six within the afternoon; while you look, it’s already Friday; when one seems, the month is over; when one seems, the yr is over; when one seems… 50, 60, and 70 years have handed!

When you look, we not know the place our buddies are.

When you look, we misplaced the love of our life, and now, it’s too late to return. Do not cease doing one thing you want on account of lack of time. Do not cease having somebody by your facet as a result of your kids will quickly not be yours, and you’ll have to do one thing with that remaining time the place the one factor we’ll miss would be the area that may solely be loved with the same old buddies. That time that, sadly, by no means returns. The day is at present.

WE ARE NO LONGER AT AN AGE TO POSTPONE ANYTHING.

Hopefully, you might have time to learn after which share this message.

This materials ends with an instruction:

Pass it on to your 10 finest buddies, and also you’ll see how just some reply.

Well, I didn’t solely reply; I’m sharing this with many by way of this column. But I want to conclude with only a reminder. This is just not a “chain letter.” Do not purchase stamps and letter envelopes after we are suggested to cross them on. That can be analog. Just copy, lower, and paste this into your chat group. Now, that’s the world we’re in at present.

 

(Francis Kong’s podcast “Inspiring Excellence” is now obtainable on Spotify, Apple, Google, or different podcast streaming platforms.)

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