We are a generation in waiting: we spent our childhood waiting.
We had to wait two hours after eating before swimming, two hours, lunch, sleep for rest and Sundays I had to stay hungry all morning to communion.
Even the pains went by with the waiting.
Looking back, it is hard to believe that we’re still alive..
We traveled in cars without seat belts and airbags. We travel 10 and 12 hours, five people
in a little fiat and we hadn’t suffered from the “syndrome of economy class”. We didn’t have doors, windows, cabinets, and bottles of medication safety for the children. we were riding the bikes without helmets and protective, we were hitching spot, καβαλάγαμε motorcycles without a license. The swings were made of metal and had sharp corners.
Even our games were violent. We spent hours constructing makeshift cars to race slumping to a downhill and only then we discovered that we had forgotten to put brakes. We used to play “long donkey” and none of us had a hernia or dislocation..
We went out of the house running in the morning, played all day and we got back to the house only after they had turn on the lights in the streets. No one could find us. Then there were no cell phones. We broke bones and teeth and there was no law to punish the “responsible” Ανοίγανε heads when we played war with stones and sticks and that nothing was going on. It was something out of the ordinary for children with all treated with a little iodine or a few stitches.. there was No one to blame but yourself. We had fights and we picked on each other and learned to overcome.
We ate sweets and drank soda, but we were not obese. Maybe one of us was fat and that was all. We shared bottles of water or soft drinks or any drink and neither one of us got anything. Sometimes picking up lice at school and our mothers were washing the head with warm vinegar..
We didn’t have Playstations, Nintendo 64, 99 tv channels, videos with surround sound, computers or Internet. We had friends Arrange to go out with them and we went out. A
time, I didn’t arrange anything, I was just hanging out on the street and there meet for a game of tag, hide-and-seek, dodge ball, until there was enough technology. We spent the day outside, running and playing. We make games on our own from wood. We lost thousands of soccer balls. We drank water straight from the tap, not bottled, and some put their lips on the faucet. We hunted lizards and birds with bb guns in the country, despite the fact that we were minors and there were no adults to supervise.
We went by bike or by walking up to the houses of friends and called them from the door. You can’t imagine! Without to ask permission from our parents, all alone out there in the
hard this world! Without anyone in charge! How did we do it?
The school games all attended and those who were not taking part had to put up with the frustration.
Some were not so good students as others, and I had to stay in the same class. There were no special test to pass all.. the horror!
We were on vacation three months in the summer and we spent endless hours on the beach without a sunscreen with a spf of 30 and without sailing lessons, tennis or golf..
We used to make but fantastic castles in the sand and we were fishing with a hook and a fishing line. We took the girls by chasing them to put them in hand, not catching a conversation in a chat room and writing? ) : D : P
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility and through all this we learned and grew.
If you’re from the “old”… congratulations! You had the luck to grow up as a child…
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Him/Her thank you for the trip…
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For those who are born between 1945 -1980 – An excellent text…
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