RE: I miss the old people from when I was a child - they're different now
true @clemdane old fashion people were harder workers and more commited. Here in Spain the generation of my parents now (70-80 yo) are the ones that rise the country after the Civil War (1936-39)..the suffer the famine and lack of free education as early child, the severity and restrictions of the dictatorship throughout their lifes, having to emigrate to get a better living and when democracy and prosperity came back they were already 50 something and the train in a certain way had pass for them. They had no sense of "leisure time" as are people that only conceived working hard to pay the mortgage, bills, sustain their family and never be poor or in need again. Now they see how the world has changed around as and younger people don´t stand to their same values...
That is very sad. That makes sense, though. It must hard for them to have had to live that way and then to adapt to seeing young people be able to do everything without much of a struggle. It must seem quite frivolous to them.
My parents were both poor until a certain point in their teens when their parents rose in status and income, but the mentality is still that of a child who grew up in the Depression. They never want to waste anything, and my father doesn't believe in paying other people to do any jobs, even if they are difficult ones, because he will teach himself to do it himself. So he painted our house, built things, repaired everything around the house and on the car, did some plumbing and electricity, setup antennas on our roof and he even built our television himself from a kit! This was in the old days when you could do that.