turtleback-elephants replied to your post:Last night my dad called up to let me know he was...
I agree, when my father says ‘in my day’ it feels like he’s trying to justify his terrible opinions of the 'youth’ these days. But also your dad hit the nail on the head, it’s difficult to start and you’re doing great <333
It is a shitty way to justify the suffering of the past and it makes them look so resentful of the things we have now, like somehow there’s something noble about unnecessary suffering. Except I can hardly imagine a Victorian person complaining about antibiotics or the lack of typhoid and polio.
*hugs* thank you darling <3