but we don't notice it altogether. Unless it's something really big, it just gets filed into a mental filing cabinet, is accepted, and all done at such a speed that we barely acknowledge it.
There are many events which draw more attention, but they are significant in such a manner that we must accept them, and take note of them. But it's the niggling petite changes which make the most impact and the most difference, and we are like frogs in boiling water. We don't notice so much all the small stuff until the world in which we live is somethng new, something so different that we wonder how we could have missed it changing.
For an example, I turn to TV, one of my favorite subjects, and one in which the changes particularly represent a world long gone and far away. Picture the early 60s, the decade in which I was brought up, and how some of the greatest changes were made in television. Lucy and Ricky Ricardo slept in separate beds, or the original Dick Van Dyke series has similar arrangments; how a "darn" was a huge no-no, nevermind one of the great sins of the day. H
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