Life - is all about survival!

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids 
in the 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived ,because:

Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint, 
which was promptly chewed and licked.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or
cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.

When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent 
'spokey dokey's' on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding 
in the passenger seat was a treat. 

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it 
tasted the same.

We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar 
in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.

We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one 
actually died from this. 

We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top 
speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes.  After running 
into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem. 

We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we 
were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.

We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all.  No 99 
channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, 
no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms.

We had friends we went outside and found them.  We played elastics and 
street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.  We fell out of trees, 
got cut and broke bones but there were no lawsuits.  We had full on 
fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents.  We played 
knock-down-ginger and were afraid of the owners catching us.  We walked 
to friend's homes.

We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or 
daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.  We made up 
games with sticks and tennis balls.  We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our 
coats by only the hood.  The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law 
unheard of.  They actually sided with the law. 


This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and 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.  And you're one of them. Congratulations!  Pass this on to 
others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government 
regulated our lives, for our own good.  For those of you who aren't old enough, 
thought you might like to read about us.

This my friends, is surprisingly frightening...and it might put a smile on your face: 
The majority of students in universities today were born in 1983...They are called 
youth. They have never heard of We are the World, We are the children, and 
the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard 
of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena or Belinda Carlisle.  For them, there has always 
been only one Germany and one Vietnam.  AIDS has existed since they were born.  
CD's have existed since they were born.  Michael Jackson has always been white.  
To them John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can't imagine 
how this fat guy could be a god of dance.  They believe that Charlie's Angels and 
Mission Impossible are Films from a few years ago. They can never imagine life 
before computers. They'll never have pretended to be the A Team, RedHand 
Gang or The Famous Five.  They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or
Why Don't You. They can't believe a black and white television ever existed 
and don't even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control. And they 
will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.

Now let's check if we're getting old...
Did you understand what was written above and smile?

Yes, you're getting older!!!!