Super fun topic!
Okay, and just like the 1970's television show, You Asked For it (with host, Art Baker), here it is!
Back to the 60's or 70's for me! And please, allow me remain there until my dying day, oh, and, while you're at it, scrub my memory clean of all that I remember from about the late 1980's - onward. Thanks.
Technology? Advances? Modern conveniences? Pfft! I don't give a hoot about any of that, but what I do care about (and miss) are the days when mutual respect was the order of the day, when people greeted other on the street with a simple and friendly hello or a smile, regardless of whether you knew the person or not, doors were held open for others as a courtesy thing, please & thank you were actually part of the vocabulary (whatever happened to those days), Sunday was reserved for a day of rest (nothing open), penny-candy could actually be purchased with a penny, kids had respect for their parents, the dinner table actually stood for something (unlike today)... and when a snot-nosed, bratty kid stepped out of line, they got their bottom warmed, and the bottom-warming served as a reminder for the future.
Today stinks IMO, as this world has become nothing more than a cesspool of greed, materialism, and small-minded shallowness, both in the way of thinking and speaking. Heaven forbid someone who's packing a few extra pounds, doesn't make six-figures a year, or doesn't live up to the looks and ideals according to some cheap, shiny magazine sitting on a dusty store shelf, with some fake, doctored-up or touched-up sports figure or skinny super-model gracing the cover, that looks as though she could use a McDonald's Happy Meal once a day for the next 30 days.
I remember when everyone lived comfortably in their tiny little quaint homes of yesteryear, the very same homes that more than well-served families needs for decades, yet suddenly today everyone needs bigger and better, even though families today are nothing more than a drop and a squirt in size to those of yesterday, and neighbours, what are those? Who are they?
We have all of two neighbours left that are originals to the hood when we moved in, and all other homes around us have been bought and sold 5-times over since we moved in, because families can't possibly reside in the same home for more than a handful of years anymore, and for those old enough to remember when the common everyday family owned a single motor vehicle, well not anymore, for today it's not just about owning a simple vehicle that get's you too and from point A to point B (and back again) economically, ugh-uh... it's all about putting on a show, got to invest ones money in a super-duper high-end vehicle, and don't just buy one, buy two, buy three, add a power boat and brand new decked-out pickup truck to match, because banks have lots of money, and then cry like wet-bottomed babies when the economy tanks and their left scratching their noggins as to how their going to keep up with all of their payments and bills.
Saving? What a magical concept that is! Wow! Never heard of it before! Who would have guessed! How do you do it? Paycheck to paycheck, isn't that the way of today's world, or as my dear husband likes to say, one paycheck away from the soup-line, and how right he is.
I could have very well answered this thread with a simple, roll me back to the 60's or 70's, and left it at that, but what quality of conversation does that equate to? The next thing we'll be expected to do is get our replies down to, yep, nope, maybe, ugh-ha, probably, think-so... and then end the conversation with the likes of - chow or cheers, and while we're on the topic of, how about greetings... yo, hey, or an ugh (with a head-nod to go along with it), because everything is too much of an effort nowadays.
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed hardly anyone refers to anyone by name anymore? What happened? In my day, when I was younger and growing up, calling someone by their name was a reflection of respect, and if you overlooked living up to those ideals, you were quickly reminded of the fact. Have people simply forgotten what names stand for? Or is that, too, out of date, out of fashion, and out of step with today's changing times? Or maybe I have it all wrong, and referring to someone by name just isn't hip anymore. Yeah, that's probably it, it's not hip, or maybe it's just plain uncool (is that even a word... am I using proper English)? Or, maybe... just maybe, could it possibly be the result of double income families, where both parents are working and never home, and at the end of the day it's the poor children who pay the price?
Please, oh pretty please... take me back to yesteryear.
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