I enjoy spending time with my grandparents, because besides their company, it’s a window into a world beyond. I hear their stories and feel their perspective, and it’s the closest connection I have to history.

It reinforces that every generation does the best it can, with the knowledge at hand. And it strikes me queerly how times change during a single lifetime.

Time is the one flowing element we cannot overcome, and grandparents provide a tiny insight into its effects and reckoning. It is one world, as it was for all our ancestors who ever were, and we must register such depth into our consideration moving forward.