A friend just sent me this! Very apt!
M'Lady
Makes sense
Subject: When We Were Kids
Life was better when we were kids.....
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the
1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's...!!
First, we survived being born to mothers who
smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing
and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles,
doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,
we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we
took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat
belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day
was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and
NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends,
from one bottle and NO ONE actually died
from this.
We ate cupcakes, bread and butter and drank
soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't
overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS
OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play
all day, as long as we were back when the
streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts
out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only
to find out we forgot the brakes. After running
into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve
the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's,
X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels
on cable, no video tape movies, no surround
sound, no cell phones, no personal computers,
no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD
FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there
were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and ate worms
and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out
very many eyes, nor did the worms live in us forever.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house
and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or
just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone
made the team. Those who didn't had to learn
to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke
the law was unheard of. They actually sided
with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers,
problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of
innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who
have had the luck to grow up as kids, before
the lawyers and the government regulated our
lives for our own good.
Kind of makes you want to run through the
house with scissors, doesn't it?!
L&L
Your Liege