I have no trouble at all realizing that I am living the best life I've ever lived right now, here, in 2010.

Cars were built of very heavy metal and got terrible gas mileage. People thought they were built better because the heavier metal required heavy-duty welding and other types of construction that made the vehicle more "solid". You could even "hear" it when you closed the door. But those cars cannot compare to today's engineering. I laugh at my husband because he described some of the very strange vehicles he drove in England in the 1960's, one even split in half across side to side right behind the driver's seat. Very odd.

The day after I got my driver's license in 1968, I was driving to the dime store to buy more Christmas wrapping paper and a woman ran a stop sign and hit me at a 90degree angle. I was driving an old 1963 Pontiac Star Chief. She had a new Dodge something with a lot of grill work. She lost all her grill work and dented her hood badly. I had a small scratch on the chrome ring around my headlight. Nothing ever came of it because she was in the wrong and I had a witness and people weren't sue crazy. But my car was like a tank. Hers was very fragile.

Things have changed a lot.

I guess the more "things" we have in our world, the more we see in the grass on the other side. But it never is greener, just more cluttered.