Growing up as a JW, you see the world differently than most everyone else. You see the world as something that is going to end very soon. All that we know will be gone by the time we're adults.
When we were young, we were living in the last days and were expecting Armageddon before we grew old. We were the people who would cheat old age and death.
Therefore we didn't have to worry about jobs, careers, houses, families. We were gonna party like it was 1999, the end would come and we'd all be in Paradise.
That was when we were young. Now... we're old. Fortunately I've awakened from that dream and seen the folly of that expectation. However, occasionally I see former JW associates that are still in and active and I see people still living as if Armageddon is coming soon. But now they do have to worry about jobs, houses, families... and now, medical care and retirement. They think, maybe still, they'll cheat death. They're expecting something that isn't going to happen.
It's a delusional expectation that has caused entire generations (not just mine, but my parents and grandparents before me) to waste their lives expecting to live forever and to be young forever. How sad to see people in their twilight years still expecting some miraculous event to transform them back to what they can never be again...
Once in awhile I get all introspective about my growing up JW and have to record my thoughts on these things. I know that most here can relate...
Now... back to reality... and the bar...
