Beißen Gedanken: To All Those Born in 1940's, 50's , 60's

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To All Those Born in 1940's, 50's , 60's

We had no maids. Our mothers cooked, cleaned and took care of the whole family. They still had time to chat with neighbours.

Everyone had candy floss, fizzy drinks and shaved ice with syrups of different colours - brown, red and green. Diabetes was rare and aspirin/Aspro cured all illness.

We rode adult's bicycle to school, the richer ones had their own mini-bikes.Ironically, we all had problems with our brakes, and after running into the bushes
a few times, we learned how to solve the problem.

School prefects were a fearful lot ... more fearful than the teachers. Detention class was like going to prison for a day. We had "public caning" in schools.

NO ONE ever won the big prizes on "Tikam". It was a scam but it did not stop us coming back for more ice cream.

Motorbikes were ridden without helmets. It was rare to ride in a private taxi.
Taking a bus was luxury - we either cycled or walked everywhere.

We drank water from the tap and NOT from bottles.

We spent hours in fields under the sun, playing football or flying kites, without worrying about UV rays.

We roamed free catching spiders and did not worry about Aedes mosquitoes.
We kept our spiders in match boxes and were ready for a spider fight anytime.

With just 5 pebbles, girls played endless games and the boys ran like crazy for
hours playing with balls

When it rained, we swam in the drains & canals to catch "ikan keli", none of us dissolved in rain.

We shared one bottle of soft drink with friends, NO ONE actually worried about catching anything.

We ate salty, sweet & oily foods, bread had real butter and sometimes condensed milk. We enjoyed very sweet coffee, tea, and "ice kacang" but we were not obese because.......WE WERE OUT PLAYING ALL THE TIME!!

We left home in the morning and played all day till hunger drove us back home. When needed, our parents knew how to find us. NO ONE actually watched over
us and WE ALWAYS WERE SAFE.

WE DID NOT HAVE HANDPHONES BUGGING US.We rode bikes or walked over to a friend's house and just yelled for them!

We did not have Playstations, X-boxes, Nintendo's, multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies, no surround sound, no phones, no personal computers, no Internet.
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! Our TV was black and white with one channel only.

We fell off trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and we still continued the stunts.

We did not have birthday parties till we were 21, that is when we started to take notice of girls.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned ......
HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up in such an era.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Today, these are the things our kids are doing: