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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m not sure that I should be sad but I’ve just started traveling in my adult years. I’m almost 40 and many of my family members are in their 70s, 80s, 90s now and never had the opportunity or financial means to travel.

I’ve only been to England and every state on the East Coast so far — so nothing terribly exciting but more than any of them have ever been able to.

I think of the family that died like my father and grandmother without ever going to the beach. Simple things I take for granted maybe?

Not sure what type of guilt I’m feeling but I am feeling it today. [/quote]

Are you sure it's guilt OP? Or just melancholy and nostalgia for family members missed? [/quote]

Op here. I feel emotional also when they talk about how segregated things were for them and how life was even at the times when they were my age. We are AA. They were all in the South their entire lives - deep VA and NC. [/quote]

It feels like you are sad for what society deprived them of.  Their full economic and social liberty.  I feel sympathy for your grief over this.

Regarding travel.  Historically speaking, mass market travel for pleasure is very new.  In the 1900s-1940s, even upper middle class people used to go to lectures with films and slideshows about distant travel destinations instead of going anywhere.  I went to a couple myself in the 1980s with my grandparents and they loved these talks while I didn't understand why anyone would care to get travel information this way.

Life changes.  I feel that older generations had more skills at crafting, making, and community building.  Those are also sources of enjoyment.  And things we modern people seem to have less of.  [/quote]

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