CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL BORN IN 1930’s, 1940’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and Early 80’s !!!
First, let’s start with a round of applause for surviving some truly wild and woolly times. Picture it:
Your mothers smoked and/or drank while pregnant, and you came out just fine. We’re talking about ladies who threw caution to the wind, downed blue cheese dressing, ate tuna straight from the can, and didn’t bat an eye at taking aspirin without worrying about diabetes tests.
And that was just the beginning! Your cribs looked like little masterpieces painted in bright, lead-based colors. Who needed childproof anything? Medicine bottles, doors, cabinets – it was all fair game. And let’s not even get started on biking – helmets were for astronauts, not kids! Hitchhiking was practically a rite of passage.
Remember riding in cars with NO seatbelts or airbags? The back of a van, unsecured – pure joy! Drinking water from garden hoses instead of bottles? Bliss. Sharing one soda with four friends, and nobody dropped dead?
Cakes, white bread, real butter, and sugary drinks were your fuel. But guess what? You weren’t overweight because…
YOU WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!!
Out of the house in the morning, back only when streetlights came on. No phones, no texts, just freedom. Building go-carts from scraps, riding them downhill only to crash because, who needs brakes? You learned, you adapted.
No Playstations, Nintendos, Xboxes, or video games. Forget 99 cable channels, surround sound, mobile phones, PCs, or the Internet. Nope, you had friends – real-life, flesh-and-blood friends – and you went outside and found them!
Falling out of trees, getting cuts, breaking bones, and losing teeth – no lawyers involved. Playing with worms and mud pies, and nobody freaked out. Making up games with sticks and tennis balls; shockingly, no eyes were poked out.
Biking or walking to a friend’s house and knocking on the door or just yelling for them. Sports tryouts where not everyone made the team – learning to handle disappointment. If you broke the law, guess who sided with the law? Your parents!
This generation gave the world some of the best risk-takers, problem-solvers, and inventors. The past 50 years have been bursting with innovation and new ideas. You had freedom, failure, success, and responsibility, and you learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL! And it’s YOU we’re talking about here! Congratulations!
So, what do you think of this little trip down memory lane? Any truth to it? Feel free to share this with your fellow survivors of the pre-lawyers, pre-government regulation days. And hey, why not forward it to your kids so they know just how gutsy their parents were?
