Isn't this the truth...

[Uabassoon]

I agree with you Sas. I'm only 21 but I grew up in a very small town where there weren't drug problems and there weren't people trying to hurt us. It wasn't that my parents didn't care, but they let me be a kid. I ran around outside all day, but my parents always knew where i was. If my mom came outside and yelled my name I was always within earshot. I had a blast as a kid. I was outside from sunup until sundown. Riding bikes, playing soccer, tag chase, exercising my body and my mind. I didn't think that the point of the story was that parents didn't care back then, it was just that times were different. WHile I was one of those kids who was allowed to run around all day I knew my parents cared about me because as soon as i got old enough to get into real trouble and the town started changing the rules changed. It seemed the older I got the more my parents kept a short leash on me. BUt I'm glad my parents let me be a kid, because never again in my life will I be able to spend 3 months a year riding bikes and chasing fireflies and not have to worry about anything else other than what fun thing I was going to do the next day.

[sasvermont]

It was fun back then, whenever that way for each of us. We all hold our memories near and dear (?) to us and they are all so different as the generations develop. I can recall my Grandfather telling me stories that would make me wonder what cave they were living in.... That is the way it goes...progress. I would not change a minute of my past or don't want to miss a minute of what is in store for all of us!

It is fun looking back - I suppose that is what I was trying to say in my earlier post and that I was disappointed that the posts began to be negative. Maybe I should give this a rest and sit back and just read. Everyone has their turn at it, I know.

Thanks - and I trust and hope everyone has fond memories of their childhood. I know I do. By the way, there were also some horrible memories too, but mostly good memories. Life is not perfect.

I am surprised we lived through some of the things we did and some of the things we ate!

[Cataholic]

Originally posted by sasvermont
I am surprised we lived through some of the things we did and some of the things we ate!

SAS- that reminded me of something that happened on Sunday. I had my friend's daughter over making cookies with me. She is seven. I told her mom, "well, everything went great! Even Hannah eating half the dough"...OMG...her eyes got sooo big!! She asked, "Was there egg in it" YUP! I know, I know, salmonella poisoning..but, you know what? At 36, I have never had it, eat batter all the time (probably why I weigh 25 pounds more than I should), and I haven't died yet! I don't think Hannah and I will be making cookies anymore.

[neko1]

I totally agree with some of the things we ate! I grew up on hot dogs (yuk!) and mac and cheese (which i eat now and again). That was all my mother could afford for me-she was a single mother who worked 3 jobs just to feed me, clothe me, and put a roof over my head.
I also had a love for cheese...man I ate some weird stuff now that i remember!!

[sammi]

How can such a good post go so bad?

[Soledad]

Uh...it seems fine to me? Just because people pointed out some other thoughts, doesn't mean it's ruined.

[sasvermont]

Anyone wonder what cars will be like in 25 years? Or computers? Can you imagine? Wonder what great medical break throughs will have happened by then? I hope to still be around to witness it all. Think about the endangered animals? And all those "boomers" out there, needing hair dye!

[Pam]

SAS I think that pondering the future is exciting and at the same time scary. Technology has brought us so much but at times created problems. In the past people got diseases and died which was the normal scheme of things. Nowadays thankfully so many diseases have been wiped out but now we have the technology to hold life and death in our hands with people battling over the right to "pull the plug." We have certainly gone forward but we have created scenarios that were impossible to imagine just a few years ago.

[sasvermont]

It sometimes feels like an out of control train wreck, but we take this process one day at a time. We won't even notice the big changes because they happen so gradually. It takes times like this (this thread) to look back on how things were years ago.

For some of the younger folks here, there was still a yesterday, just fewer of them. They will have their turn at looking back at years and years.

Gosh, this sounds like a New Year's Eve speech! Someone STOP ME!