Harmonic Convergence

As I research for our trip to Egypt I come across articles about power centers and new age tours and the harmonic convergence of 1987. And looking back 23 years later I wonder if that harmonic convergence did affect us in a monumental way? 

Moving from a warlike civilization to a peaceful one? I can't say I think that has happened, although I do believe, in the 90s that people were more concerned with becoming in touch with a spiritual side in a way that wasn't present in the 80s. 

I remember my grandparents in the 1980s. Things seemed old-fashioned in their house at the time and particularly in my memory now. I remember watching sports shows on their over-sized color tv, reading long, laborious articles from the NY Times, listening to Grandma practice the piano. Their life was quiet and punctuated with small events, a dinner out, a visit with me, a play or concert, a trip to the supermarket, a drive along the shore.  

I think to myself that I am slowly becoming that generation. The one that is the most traditional, staid. While around me children and young people seem to burst forward chaotically, attacking life, living in a frenzy of tiny bits of experience.  That effect seems to be exaggerated in our super-technical world, where each person travels with electronics, technology is involved in every act, and all of life is complemented(?) enhanced(?) interrupted(?) by its presence.

Did I seem that way to my grandparents? Unable to focus? To slow down and breathe? Unaware of traditional things, unappreciative of the nuances of living? What happens as I become the representative of that generation? This must be how evolution works. Evolution from a single perspective.

Comments

[Nora45]

Harmonic convergence is one of those cases that is crucial, and that takes professional intervention on

[mommalibrarian]

I resemble this blog.  I think being at peace with oneself and not in need of constant distraction is an 'adult' life style.  But, then there is my addiction to Google Reader - totally distracting.