-SLOW DOWN, YOU MOVE TOO FAST...

Standing at the crossroad with no desire to run.

There's no hurry anymore

When all is said and done - ABBA

This is starting out to be the worst century of my life. Now, last century, that was a great one! This one, forget about it.

So many things confuse me now. It’s like there’s an entirely new world out there with which I’ve completely lost touch. For instance, there’s this TV reality show called ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians‘. Who in the hell are the Kardashians and why in the world would I want to keep up with them?

Back in the good old twentieth century, your brain had time to digest events before it was confronted with the next one to process. In this century, things are happening too fast for my mind to envelop. I blame a lot of this on YouTube. A middle-aged spinster sings a song in front of three judges in England and four minutes later, the video of Susan Boyle singing “I Had A Dream” has gone viral and has millions upon millions of views (Now over one hundred million). My oldest granddaughter and two of her friends shoot an amateurish video in the back country of San Diego, give it the cumbersome title of ‘Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest From Pure Moods’ and it gets over 71,000 views. Are you kidding? How would 71,000 people even find it? How many people would click on YouTube, access the Search box, and think, ‘Hmm, today I think I’ll run a search to see if there’s a video called ‘Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest from Pure Moods?’ How can that even be? Even my youngest granddaughter is getting in on the act. She recently edited some Disney clips, added a Beatles background song and already has close to 8,000 views! 

Don't even get me started on cell phones! They now do everything except babysit the kids. Back in the twentieth century, it would have taken a rocket scientist to figure out how to work his way through the intricate maze of the phone's menu just to call someone. Now, teenagers glide through the process as easily as turning on a light switch.

Slow down, world! What in the hell is the hurry? Give an old guy a break!

I'm not a big fan of this century. Hopefully, the next one will treat me a little better.

Copyright February 2010 - phil cerasoli