Things you are so pleased that they happened in your lifetime

[MrsGrindah]

Just heard a woman make reference to “ her wife” and it struck me how pleased I am to be able to experience gay marriage becoming a reality.
Other things I am glad I’ve lived through are:
The internet! And all that goes with it eg Skype Alexa etc. If you’d have told me as a child that we would be living like this I wouldn’t have believed it.
Changes in medical science..things like IVF , transplants etc.
The Berlin Wall coming dow

I’m not just glad these things happened, I’m glad I could witness them. What are yours ( no matter how trivial!)

Roger Federer playing tennis....👏

The Pill
Women being allowed to own property and have a mortgage alone etc
Widespread travel (although we will probably pay the price for that!)
The internet
Camera phones

Hair straighteners. Shallow but life changing.

Moon landings and space shuttle launches

I am very glad that camera phone and instant uploading of photos to social media happened in my 20s... It means all the stupid stuff I did while younger is not preserved for posterity!

Internet video calls etc- life line when living abroad.

Kindles/ereaders. Easy supply for English language books while abroad!

The Olympics in my home town!
Solar eclipse
I'll be telling me grandchildren about these

Camera phones.

I love how easily I can look back at pictures of DS

Low-cost airlines providing travel that everybody can afford. Obviously, mass tourism has its downsides, but on balance the democratisation of international travel is a good thing.

Safe, reliable, comfortable modern cars. Most pre 1980 cars were unreliable death traps.

Another one for the Olympics.

Less racism (to a degree).

Another one for solar eclipse, we were lucky enough to see the total one in 1999.

London Olympics . 2012 was a year of joy

Deodorant. The vast majority of human history, everyone must’ve stank.

I'm just old enough to remember the voyager probes sending back information. Then the Cassini mission to Saturn and then the mission to Pluto! Fascinating.
Most modern technology to be honest!

Electricity and running water. My grandparent had neither in the farm when they were my kids age.

I now live in the house and I dread to think what it was like in 1925 with 3 kids, no washing machines, fridges or wine!!!

Wifi
The London Olympics (and getting to work at them!)

Electric cars

Loads. The end of apartheid, the Berlin wall coming down, the internet, abolishment of corporal punishment in schools. The millennium, pretty chuffed I've lived through the turn of a century and new millennium.

Agree with same-sex marriage, and the internet.

I'll add those glasses that let colourblind people see colour. I'm hoping they'll invent ones that let you see colours that humans can't.

Messi and Ronaldo

All of the aforementionec and Live Aid, I’ll never forget that day (it was roasting hot too).

The Moon landings. To be able to watch someone land on another world, astonishing.
Nelson Mandela shaking hands with the Springboks after they won the World Cup.
The Channel Tunnel. A vile experience, but an engineering marvel that makes it possible to have lunch in Germany.

Supersonic travel

Barack Obama being elected

The ability to keep premature babies alive

I'm so glad that I have a washing machine.

I do also genuinely believe that we saw the peak of Western of at least UK civilisation in the late 90's/2000's. Been all down hill since then.

I remember what it was like to be truly hopeful for the future.