The son of an analogue and digital world. That’s what I am.

I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s. Back then computers as we know them today didn’t exist - although I did get my first one back in the early 80’s, a Texas Instruments TI 99/4A.

Back then my father and grandfathers have certain items that defined men back then, during those years. Items such as the shaving kit, a mechanical watch, a pocket knife, a handkerchief or a small radio transistor.
I still remember fondly my grandfather boiling water to shave every morning, then applying a new razor to the butterfly opening shaving razor, then applying the soap with a shaving brush and finally shaving carefully. It was done with purpose and with quality tools that lasted. I remember the shaving kit my father gave me.

I still find myself valuing those tools more than their modern counterparts. Yes, you have better razors, shaving gels and aftershaves. Yes, you have better watches that those built back in the 30’s and 40’s. Yes, we have a better quality of living thanks to the digital age with computers, iPhones, the Internet and the always being in touch.

Still, there is something so pure, so good, so… analogue in those quality items that still holds a huge part of my analogue/digital heart.

Often I find myself longing for a simpler life, a life that might be harder - like those of my grandparents and parents - but a life that was simpler. People didn’t buy disposable, people bought quality when possible.

People bought quality when possible.

Just a thought.