(Cerita Motivasi)
*** Born 80's Or Before? ***
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Born 80's or
before? Read This...
According to
today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the
50's, 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
'clackers' on our wheels.
- As children, we
would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the
passenger seat was a treat.
- We drank water
from the garden hose and not from a bottle - tasted the same.
- We ate dripping
sandwiches, 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 play all day, as long as we were back before it
got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one minded.
- We did not have
Playstations 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 and teeth, and there were no lawsuits.
They were accidents. We learnt not to do the same thing again.
- We had fights,
punched each other hard and got black and blue - we learned to get over
it.
- We walked to
friend's homes.
- We made up
games with sticks and tennis balls and ate live stuff, and although we
were told it would happen, we did not have very many eyes out, nor did
the live stuff live inside us forever.
- We rode bikes
in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. Our actions were our
own. Consequences were expected.
- The idea of a
parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually
sided with the law. Imagine that!
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 up as real kids, before lawyers and
government regulated our lives, for our own good.
(If you aren't
old enough, thought you might like to read about us).