O Boy is this so True in Soul Journey

Oct. 9, 2014, 2:22 a.m.
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Got this email today. I sure can relate to it.
My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn’t seem to get food poisoning.

Our school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can’t remember getting e. Coli

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake or at the beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
We all took PE ..... And risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors that cost as much as a small car. I can’t recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

We got the cane for doing something wrong at school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour & respect those older than us.

We had 50 kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!

We all said prayers in school irrespective of our religion, sang the national anthem and no one got upset.

Staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention we wish we hadn’t got.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can’t recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We weren’t!!

Oh yeah .... And where was the antibiotics and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6p bottle of iodine and then we got our backside spanked. Now it’s a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?

We never needed to get into group therapy and/or anger management classes. We were obviously so duped by so many social ills, that we didn’t even notice that the entire country wasn’t taking Prozac

How on earth did we ever survive???

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How did we ever survive?

Deleted user ⋅ October 09, 2014

It was a different time in those days for sure.. I think I knew from a very young age that our family was dysfunctional. It had a huge effect on me growing up :-(

gypsy spirit ⋅ October 09, 2014

yes, so very true..... and I am sure dangers existed back in our childhood too but we survived, even with our innocence in tack. The main difference these days are the dangers mankind has created, technology and faster vehicles for a start. I used to rid by bike on the road without a helmet and often didn't even hold the handlebars ( thought I was clever for that...lol). Only time I fell off and got hurt was when I put on front brake going downhill too fast. We were the fortunate generation. hugs and smiles p

Deleted user ⋅ October 09, 2014

Yes, I played outside all day long. Didn't sit in the house with my computer playing games. Although I do admit to watching cartoons on Saturday mornings but when cartoons were over, outside I went to play. Back then, the neighborhood kids played together - doing all sorts of fun things. I had such a great childhood until my Mom passed away and then after that, life became very, very hard.

crystal butterfly ⋅ October 10, 2014

We played marbles in the middle of our gravel street and baseball there too. We had our sleds pulled behind cars or trucks. We would swing high and jump out.
We would stand on the seats of the swings to swing. We took waxed paper to slick up the slipper slide so it would be faster.