Our Perspectives on Safety as We Age

It seems that no matter our age, we tend to regard the days of our youth as “the good old days.” We also tend to consider those days as days of greater safety than the present days.

People my age will talk about things like riding in the back of a pickup truck or a station wagon, and joke about how they survived those “dangerous” things. Of course, it is easier to consider those actions safe when the people to whom it was unsafe are not alive to debate how dangerous they truly were. It is only that we survived doing something that dangerous that skews our perspective into the thought it was safe. It has the integrity of someone who survived being shot, or shot at, putting forth that it is somehow safe to be shot or shot at.