TO ALL THE THOSE WHO WERE BORN IN THE 50's and 60's / early '70s............ 

First, We survived with mothers who had no maids. They cooked /cleaned while taking care of us at the same time.

They took aspirin, candies floss,fizzy drinks, shaved ice with syrups and diabetes were rare. Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was remedy for fever.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and When we rode our bikes, we had no helmets,

As children, we would ride with our parents on bicycles/ motorcycles for 2 or 3.

Richer ones in cars with no seat belts or air bags.


Riding in the back of a private taxi was a special treat.

We drank water from the tap and not from a bottle 


We would spend hours on the fields under bright sunlight flying our kites, without worrying about the UV ray which never seem to affect us.


We go to jungle to catch spiders without worries of Aedes mosquitoes.


With mere 5 pebbles (stones) would be a endless game.

With a ball (tennis ball best) we boys would ran like crazy for hours.


We catch guppy in drains / canals and when it rain we swim there.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one Bottle and NO ONE actually worry about being unhygenic.


We ate salty, very sweet & oily food, candies,bread and real butter and drank very

sweet soft sweet coffee/ tea, ice karang, but we weren't overweight because......


WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!! 
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We would leave home in the morning and play all day, till streetlights came on.


We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles  


We did not have Playstations,  X-boxes, 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!


We were never birthdays parties till we are 21, 


 Yet this generation has produced some of the best risk-takes,problem solvers and inventors ever!


The past 40 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 government regulated our lives for our own good. and while you are at it,tell it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

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