My grandpa was born in 1928 and when he died I couldn't stop myself from thinking what that man has gone through: Born during the great depression where people went back to trade goods because money wasn't worth the paper it was made off; spending his child-years during the rise of the nazi regime; being a teen that was drafted shortly before Germany lost the war, and living in Switzerland to hide so he wasn't forced to fight for the 3rd Reich. He helped rebuilding Germany, saw it split into two and, some decades later, reunite again. He witnessed the rise of terrorism, the internet, computers, TVs, the EU. He saw the moonlanding live. He survived fatal illnesses that we now eradicated due to vaccines. And he had direct contact with people who fought in world war 1, with people who didn't know what a fridge was, and he walked on streets where cars were a rare thing to see because most people still used horses. All of that made me think about all the stuff I will witness in my future.