Peggy Noonan’s editorial in WSJ spells out what we can expect in the next few years.

She is an eloquent writer who was one of President Reagan’s speechwriters.

I believe she is clearer than anyone on what our daily lives will be like as we move through this recession and beyond.

Here are her major predictions:

Status, money and power won’t matter as much in the future; at least for most of us. 

People will be getting back to a more practical way of life.  

Whew.  That’s a relief.

“People will be allowed to grow old again,” Noonan also says.

That’s another relief.

“People will slow down.”

I don’t know about you, but our lives were getting busier, fussier, too complexed. 

I saw a commercial geared toward children, on television recently, in which children were being reminded to go outside and play.

As a nine-year old with chronically skinned up knees I didn’t need that kind of reminder. 

All I needed was a comic book, a popsicle, a maple tree and a summer’s day and I was very happy.

Can we get back to that kind of gratifying simplicity?

Read more of Noonan’s predictions.  Goodbye Bland Affulence

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