why elder peoples always remember there day??? calls them golden??? why???

You answered your own question friend. Look. Ah! what a Golden days when we are young, the world is free from fear,terror & crimes, what a days when we study in school, when law is equal for all humans & guilty should not be forgiven, peoples are happy & likes a different food more than money & power, no one is greedy & close hearted & welcomes the guests with open hands" However, when you get old you will also say that you had Golden days. Remembering the past maybe different from your grandma's story but golden days for you. Like you will tell your grandchildren that once in your life you joined mylot and practiced your English language here...

Considering what your grandma said about the days of her youth and how society was, and comparing them to today's society, I think she is right. I look at my youth and think about how unselfish people were compared to people today.

Yes most of the elders sayin the same things. This is a comparison between the past and way of living today. Because it is really true that today's living has a big difference like in technology of young generations now have modern way.

People tend to forget the bad things. Yes there wasn't as much fear and crimes, but everything was harder also. There weren't remote controls, the internet ect. I think if they were to really think about it, the older times weren't better, just different.

It's similar to our 'golden days' (not any particular time in history, but more like that time in your life when all you had to do was 'be good' while mommy &/or daddy went out to 'get surprises to bring home'). i.e. We didn't know that mommy &/or daddy went out to 'work hard to fulfill their contracts to earn money with which to buy those surprises.' Life was just good-like-that; that was The Rule. G*d tries-&-tries-&-tries to warn us that taking from the Tree of Knowledge is killing us, but we keep on hungering for more-&-more of that Forbidden Fruit!

I think we all do this, remember when the days were good for us, compared to now.

There is information that the past, in which our fathers and grandfathers lived, life was simple and uncomplicated, and in spite of the facilities granted by the civilian life after that, but it kept people away from necessities attention to other things. Our parents and grandparents who lived the past and lived our present, they are able to compare.

I also think this why old or elder persons remember there old days and say this facility is not available in our days. Like my MIL was saying Gas was not in our days and we make the meals on fire(chulha), no home servant was at that time etc etc. No friend no goldan days because now more facility is available like mobile, bike etc. but at that time no facility so how can say Goldan days.

What more can they do if they don't remember the good days that they had? But nature is cruel. They make some old people forgetting things. I am getting older and I also want to hold on to my dear memories be it sad or happy but it is what my life was. In the old days, things were simpler. Lives were simpler. We thought we could see things clearly but no, looking back now, we were as confused as we are now. If the memory is of good and happy days, surely it is golden. If it is of hurt and sadness, it surely is not golden. Yes, I love the old days, and they were golden days.

Hi, In the modern age of technology there is more competition. Everyone is trying to become better than others. And for that purpose they need more money. For earning money they struggle for whole day and night. There is no family life, love for children and so on. so children miss their parents very much. in olden days relations are more important than money. Family members take meals together. they share their feelings together. Now everyone is becoming money minded and emotions are going away from us. So old people always remember their old days and call them as golden days.

Yeah, I think golden days are before because as you have said, there is no war and there is freedom and your country before are at peace compared today. Before, I guess,the government is fair and all is well unlike today that there is a corruption and war.

because they are the people who had countless experience. every white strand of their hair has a story to tell. every lines on their face had been the mark of joyous years and sorrowful days. their eyes had witness the heartache of the world. they know the pain, they know the real sound of laughter. they had been on the same road that you are facing today.

Hello Tushavi! I love hearing my grandparents or any elderly person speak about the olden days because I have a huge interest in the 50's. Other eras aswell but mainly the 50's era. I'm sure there was a lot of crime and bullying back then too but compared to now, it was very very different. Even I can see how far, or should I say, how worse this world has become. I could make a list but it would annoy me haha so I wont go there but yeah I enjoy hearing stories from back in the olden days when people talk about it. Even me now, I joke around and say "Back in my day, times were a lot different." Even though the days I am talking about are the 90's. Although I am joking around saying it like that, I actually mean it too. Times really have changed even from my time as a child so imagine how much has changed to people who were born in the 40's or 50's etc. Happy MyLotting. ~AussieGal~

I think it is because in those days we could do what ever we set our minds to do without fear of pain or injuring ourselves. Now we have to pick and choose what we think we might be able to do.

First of all it is a sign of old age.Secondly, we cannot deny the fact that, with increasing life style , commerce is also flourishing but there is a compromise on quality of food and there is environmental change; there is scientific advancement, new discoveries in medicine but there is also an increase in diseases. Pleasures are many and pain is also equal.Life has become and is becoming more and more complicated in one way.It seems to be a fast world and everyone , when thinking of the past tends to glorify it because sweet memories enhance the value.

I am 58 and remember my days as a young adult not as idyllic but certainly more settled than now and with less strife. But looking back now, I realize I wasn't really aware of the world and paid no attention to what was happening. I was immersed in my own life and didn't care about politics or world events. That's probably the way most people are at that age and why they think the world was so much better. It was not until I had children in my 30's that I began to pay attention!

Of course they think it was the golden years. They were kids. What responsibilities do children have other than home work, clean your room and play? However the world was not free of fear and crimes and equal rights did not exist for everyone. They were too young then to be worried over such things.

They do this remembering how life was easier back in the "golden days." It was more about family and friendships. People were closer to each other and it was just a simpler way of living. Nowadays there are to many families not even communicating because they come home from work or school and go to their separate rooms. When I was growing up we all ate dinner together and watched TV together. How many families do that today. There are so many more diseases, crimes, happening today. People only care about themselves; so much greediness going on. Yes yesteryear was the golden days or like I like to say the Good times only we didn't know it at the time.

I do think that every person who belongs to a certain era would consider their youth as the golden years because it is the time when they are at their strongest and they are able to do what they want. I am not sure if there were lesser problems that time. Coz I know that whatever problems we may be encountering now, they have always existed before. The only difference is, it is more magnified now coz of the presence of the tri-media.

i think most people do, not just the elderly. remember when you were in grade school? i'm sure you and your friends were happy and carefree then, and trusted everyone. i think most people's memories also retain what's good and pleasant, instead of the bad, as a way of self-preservation or they won't be able to keep on living.