There sure is a lot of " I wish things were the way I was when I was growing up..." going around lately. Is this normal around here?

1st Battalion 1st Marines was never as tough as it was when I was in...

Music/rap today sucks nothing is as good as Dr Feelgood...

National Anthem is not sung like I remember it, anything else it anti-American...

Don't you think this is just a sign of getting old/stagnating? I would like to think that no matter how old I get I can keep an open mind. I know this is probably not possible but cmon things are almost never better "back in the day" as they are today. The human memory has an uncanny ability to forget the miserable and just remember the good.

Thoughts/Drunken Ramblings?

It's older generation acting like they're the tough guys and bad asses. From what I saw my generation do in the Army and in Iraq, I am pretty confident we are every bit as tough as they were.

This make ya feel any better?

If not, I would like you to watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5P1M5qwBwo

There was a study somewhere that regardless of culture or socio-economic situation, people are less happy from their 20s through their 40s, and start to be happier in their 50s and 60s.  Also noted is that people in their 50s and 60s, when shown a series of pictures, later tend to remember only the pleasant pictures.  The older one gets, the easier it is to forget the bad parts and just focus on the good...


...until your smacked in the face with a teenager in baggy pants that has a hat-wearing disorder screwing up your food because he could care less about you or the work he is doing.  Then, EVERYTHING that is current sucks.  Everything that sucked about life 20 years ago still remains forgotten, as it is not standing up to smack one in the face.

Not sure if this was the study, but this link sort of describes what I was referring to in the first paragraph:

Since the link is to msnbc, I'll just leave it cold:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37195913/ns/health-aging/