I gotta go play! lol

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, tuna from
a can, 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, white bread and real 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 rid e 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 ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the
worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up
games with sticks and tennis balls and although we
were told it would happen, we did not put out very
many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and
knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled
for 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.

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

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with
scissors, doesn't it?!

Phil's Two Cents: I'm reposting this cos I think it's intersting and true, and to illustrate what a sad state "progress" has really gotten us in. We're forgetting what it is to be human, to live, to laugh, cry, make mistakes and grow and learn to live with our shortcomings. All the doctors, lawyers, legislators, and teachers who have tried to shield us, or, if that didn't work, blind us, to heartache and sorrow mean well. What they forget is that to live is to suffer, to live is to be ensconced in rapturous, exquisite joy and agony. This is true life. This is humanity. Don't ever forget where you came from. Don't ever forget how far we can go.

Love, Outrage, and Unity.