Musings, Passing Conversations and Observations

Diners go out for a meal and expect socialability.   Interacting with eatery staff is part of that experience.   Instead in more and more places, we are encouraged to order and pay on screens, get used to robot delivery and clear out of our meal table as soon as possible, as multi eating sessions are the order of the night.  Customers can feel as part of the churn.

Public transport terminals and interchange stations are ideally where passengers need not walk far to change train or bus platforms.  These hubs are usually not final destinations for many, but only a vital transition from one part of the journey to another.   Smooth connections like automated walkways are still rare outside of city airports across Australia.  Escalators and elevators are definitely useful for an aging demographic and families with child seated prams, but they can also reduce the opportunity for exercise and movement for many who need such activity.

Blood donation can be a most useful factor in population hubs.  Preassessments are understandably made of donors but these exercises can involve voluntary answers on several personal matters.  Of course these are asked to help develop and understand a profile of the blood  donated.   Questions are asked on travel places visited in recent three years - but also include on whom one has slept with,  the medicines taken, any relevant illnesses experienced and blood pressure measurements taken.   The burgeoning growth of populations means a need for blood supplies to help other human beings.

Purpose at different stages of the journey of life is the constant as one passes through the decades.    Society provides the structure in education, training and other development imperatives of children and teenagers until adulthood.  Adults embark and work on careers, family, 

personal changes, habits, passions and inner growth.

The crowded pressure of time management, commitment and achievement takes a different kind of pace after middle age.

Suddenly the new found apparent freedom for the elderly may transform from initial pleasure to finding more meaningful routines and ritual, away from work, obligations and holidays of the past.  Such new found purposes, in the view of third parties, can be prejudiced by perceptions and reality of slowing down in physiological and mental acuity and flexibility.

Does leisure travel fulfil all the inner wishes of any one who has more time and ability to do so?  Gen Z and Millennials tend to go overseas earlier than Baby Boomers and Generation X in peacetime.  Older folks these days generally do the big caravan trip around Australia or spend weeks cruising at sea after retiring. Tourism aimed at customers are rather structured for older demographics, while younger travellers of various nationalities prefer more independence, more parties, more influencer environments, more spontaneity, more social impact and more networking.

Contemporary communication, even for unimportant transactions as well as more significant matters, are increasingly all recorded on screen - and all executed on portable devices.  The capacity of awesomely huge databanks seem to grow virtually each year, with the electric costs in maintaining and expanding cyberspace often not publicised.

Is there a need to publicly verbalise and vocalise our personal positions in the stormy seas of politics, religion and sexual matters?   More people are hesitant to speak of such matters when physically gathered and present, but less so when using app messaging, making quick electronic postings and writing up opinions on websites.

Articulation and expression best echoes in a healthy debate, where ideally every individual who participates keeps uppermost in mind and discussion that although one may not agree, one respects differences in thinking and opinion.  Problems arise when dichotomy appears in supposedly being right and wrong.   There really is no right or wrong, only the effect of different perspectives in belief, philosophy, preference and approach - especially in heady matters of politics and religion.

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