Times definitely used to be simpler.
I often think back to the way things used to be. Life is much more complicated now with smart phones and the internet and social media. There's something really nice about reminiscing about simpler times.
This piece has been going around the internet for more than a decade, and I couldn't agree more with its message. Modern technology and a modern way of life are fine, but remember the good old days?
After reading this, I just want to sit out on my back porch with a good book, a glass of lemonade, and stare up at the stars. I don't know who wrote it, but I like to think that whoever did has found a way to live life the way it used to be.
Do you remember these simpler times? Do you wish that things were a little bit more like they used to be back then? Let us know in the comments below.
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"I REMEMBER WHEN:
Mom was at home when the kids got home from school. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When a quarter was a decent allowance, and another quarter, a huge bonus.
Candy bars, Cokes, phones calls from pay-phone, popsicles were a nickel…
When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny.
When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time. And you didn't pay for air. And you got trading stamps to boot.
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents.
When the worst thing you could do at school was smoke in the bathrooms, flunk a test or chew gum.
When a '57 Chevy was everyone's dream car… to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady and girls wore a class ring with an inch of wrapped yarn so it would fit her finger.
And no one ever asked where the car keys were 'cause they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked. And you got in big trouble if you accidentally locked the doors at home, since no one ever had a key."
"Remember lying on your back on the grass with your friends and saying things like 'That cloud looks like a …'
Remember jumping waves at the ocean for hours in that cold water. And playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game. Back then, baseball was not a psychological group learning experience – it was a game.
Remember when stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals 'cause no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger."
"And with all our progress… don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace… and share it with the children of today…
Remember when being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Basically, we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. – our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we all survived because their love was greater than the threat."
"Go back with me for a minute… Before the Internet or the MAC… Before semi automatics and crack… Before SEGA or Super Nintendo…Way back…
I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at dusk,
Red Light, Green Light,
Kick The Can,
Playing kickball and dodgeball until your porch light came on,
Mother May I,
Red Rover,
Hula Hoops,
Roller skating to music,
Running through the sprinkler."
"Wait….
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar,
Christmas morning,
Your first day of school,
Bedtime prayers and goodnight kisses,
Climbing trees,
Getting an ice cream off the ice cream truck,
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers,
Jumpin' on the bed,
Pillow fights,
Runnin' till you were out of breath,
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt,
Being tired from playin'.
Your first crush… Remember that?"
"I'm not finished yet…
Kool-Aid was the drink of summer,
Toting your friends on your handle bars,
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school,
Class field trips,
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there.
There's nothing like the good old days. They were good then, and they're good now when we think about them."
"I want to go back to the time when…
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-mo',
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do it over',
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in Monopoly,
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening,
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends,
Being old referred to anyone over 20,
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties,
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better,
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the 'big people' rides at the amusement park,
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true,
Abilities were discovered because of a 'double-dog-dare',
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles,
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team,
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon,
Older siblings were the worst tormentors, but also the fiercest protectors.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!"
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