If I may say, though there was some recovery from the depression shortly after WWII, unhappily not all people enjoyed the beginning of the post war boom; my family was one of these.
The seven of us first lived in a tent when I was born. There were times I suffered hunger, and having been born with rickets, this did not help matters. My early days of grammar school I would go to school with torn clothing, and shoes with parts of the soles missing. Praise God, the family began to prosper some after my parents were divorced, and though I did experience some hardships right up until I went into the military, we were much better off.
Since then I have done what was taught by my elders in the family, my Grandparents, uncles and aunts, and, though I cannot say I am wealthy, I have earned a reasonable retirement here in Spain. My own and best advice is from the Word, not to borrow, and not to loan, though gifting is just fine.
What the point is here, is that you cannot assume because a person is born a certain time that person enjoyed all the benefits of that time. I attended schools in the, then, wealthiest public school system in the US, Long Beach, California. The wealth was due to the harbor business (LA Harbor) and the oil revenues. There were also many students from wealthy families, and they were mostly wonderful kids.
The advice I have followed has been from my elders and the Word. I do know this, though on the surface my own retirement looks stable, anything can happen tomorrow.
What alarms me about the generations behind me, the young and young adults is the vacuum regarding being trained in the basics of living and earning a living, also the abject glorification of material living. Of course we all need some material goods to exist, but to live just for material gain is tedious and dangerous.
OK, I am beginning to ramble. Take each person as an individual with an individual past...........love everyone in Christ; He loves everyone...forgive the rant.
The seven of us first lived in a tent when I was born. There were times I suffered hunger, and having been born with rickets, this did not help matters. My early days of grammar school I would go to school with torn clothing, and shoes with parts of the soles missing. Praise God, the family began to prosper some after my parents were divorced, and though I did experience some hardships right up until I went into the military, we were much better off.
Since then I have done what was taught by my elders in the family, my Grandparents, uncles and aunts, and, though I cannot say I am wealthy, I have earned a reasonable retirement here in Spain. My own and best advice is from the Word, not to borrow, and not to loan, though gifting is just fine.
What the point is here, is that you cannot assume because a person is born a certain time that person enjoyed all the benefits of that time. I attended schools in the, then, wealthiest public school system in the US, Long Beach, California. The wealth was due to the harbor business (LA Harbor) and the oil revenues. There were also many students from wealthy families, and they were mostly wonderful kids.
The advice I have followed has been from my elders and the Word. I do know this, though on the surface my own retirement looks stable, anything can happen tomorrow.
What alarms me about the generations behind me, the young and young adults is the vacuum regarding being trained in the basics of living and earning a living, also the abject glorification of material living. Of course we all need some material goods to exist, but to live just for material gain is tedious and dangerous.
OK, I am beginning to ramble. Take each person as an individual with an individual past...........love everyone in Christ; He loves everyone...forgive the rant.
