Old School

Got this one thru e-mail..
Cico Aseron .. a classmate back in college forwarded this .. thanks man.. couldn't resist to write an entry ...
as usual.. I have my say after every part

So True...and yet so sad for the newer generations...they seem to be missing out on a lot of the good stuff that comes with growing up....
Something to ponder but should be shared. It'll imprint a smile on someone's face and may turn around someone's life....

TO ALL THE KIDSWHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
maybe we should include the 80's

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
mama was still in college when I was conceived. Still i cannot conclude whether she smoked and/or drank during those days. Maybe she ate tuna, blue cheese or have taken aspirin...

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
ok.. maybe we were put to sleep that way.. but as far as I know.. someone was looking after me.. they were there watching me sleep..singing a tune while they sway my old duyan..

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.
I first had a jeep .. then a bike, with little support wheels at the end .. the folks let me play and ride them all day .. remembering how I wanted the support wheels to be removed .. our garage was somewhat higher than the street, so i would run down from the garage to the streets then learn to ride/balance my bike.. they would be shouting "PADJAK PA!.. PADJAK PA!!".. a few bruises and scratches.. I was off..

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
riding our orange volkswagen beetle was always a treat.. of course I would want to seat near the window.. no seat belts.. always watching the streets..

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
this I remember doing.. If I was thirsty I would drink in the school's drinking fountain, which were merely faucets.. after playing there's no problem drinking in a neighbors garden hose or faucet..

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and
NO ONE actually died from this.
hahaha.. did someone actually died from this? Until now my friends and I drink in I bottle or one glass.. TAGAYAN!!

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because . WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !
and boy I was really playing hehehe.. I was always thin when I was young, hmmm come to think of it.. I am still thin hehehe

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.
the street lights served as our clock back then.. whenever the lights would come on we will be finishing our games.. there's also the ringing of the church bells.. it's 6pm.. time to go home.. the elders would say "Orasyong na"

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride 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.
in our case, my friends and I will be riding our bikes all day.. why did we use our sandals as breaks? that I cannot recall hehehe

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms....... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
we had a conversation with my friends(kumare/kumpare).. Marian and Constine talking about their school.. about how many students they have.. the number of special students.. Mark and I asking why are there cases like that.. when we were young there weren't many.. what maybe the reason.. my response.. "paglaruin mo sa labas ung mga bata ngayon.. wag hayaang sa bahay lang.. nanonood TV at computer".. They agreed.. pakikihalubiho is the key .. let them learn and talk to people..

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
remember when we were young.. when the day is over and we need to clean up.. parents, tito or tita will be helping us clean.. if they would see we have a wound or cut,, they will utter.. "naku bata ka .. naglalaro ka maghapon hindi mo naramdaman na nasugatan ka na.. saan mo nakuha yan?".. thatt's what you get.. what are lawsuits?

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
I did not eat mud pies or worms.. at least that's what i believe hehehe..

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.
ahhh the sticks that can be almost anything.. imagination.. it could be the most sufisticated gun.. a sword or what have you..

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
I did this even when I was in college.. going to a friends house.. chatting with them till night time.. sharing a bottle of coke and chippy.. when I was in highschool we even braved the flooded streets just to be able to go to a friends house.. chat with them..

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
whose not afraid of being rejected?? but we learn because of these things.. we understand that there will be other things in store for us

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of.

They actually sided with the law!
It must have been hard for them.. but I guess that's what it takes to be able to raise a good child.. I wonder.. nowadays??

These generations have 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!

If 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 so much of our lives for our own good
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.