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Topic: we forget
Mr_Music Joined Wed 10/22/08 Posts: 10677	Sun 02/08/09 12:41 PM
Many times, I've sat and reflected on the past. How things have changed since I was a child. A lot of it makes me sad. Granted, there are many things today that are much more exciting than back then, but the innocence is lost. I know I can never go back to the warm summer day in 1972 when I laid out in my parents' camper reading a book, a transistor radio at my side. I know I can never go back to the days when I could be gone for the entire day, and there was no way to get ahold of me by phone. I know the days will never return where a parent could be a parent, and a child knew their place. I know both my sets of grandparents are never coming back, and I look at my own parents and wonder when they got old when I wasn't looking. To be completely frank, it scares the living hell out of me. Memories flood my mind from time to time, knowing what was, and what now is. Maybe it's all in the perspective of knowing we're all getting older, and we can never go back again.

invisible Joined Mon 04/09/07 Posts: 7692	Sun 02/08/09 12:45 PM
Taking off my shoes and jump in the puddles after rain.

Citizen_Joe Joined Sat 04/12/08 Posts: 4036	Sun 02/08/09 12:48 PM
about the simple things in life? can you give an example? You mean like when there's a power failure? The silence can be deafening.

Down2earthdebbie Joined Tue 12/05/06 Posts: 6097	Sun 02/08/09 12:53 PM
real classy....... Can'y help it I eat alot of FIBER

michiganman3 Joined Mon 10/29/07 Posts: 14521	Sun 02/08/09 12:57 PM
Well, I just came back from the Beach. I walked the boardwalk and the sun really felt good. This is a simple thing in life that didn't cost anything today. That will change after Memorial Day I miss the sun, it is always so gray in the winter in Buffalo N.Y. I miss the grass, we have had snow on the ground since November. ) Oh boy, don't I know it too. But we are getting a thaw right now. Its a miserable tease.

rickfw Joined Wed 01/21/09 Posts: 542	Sun 02/08/09 12:58 PM
trout fishing at dawn in the middle of the river with the fog rolling across it

Jess642 Joined Sat 03/31/07 Posts: 22732	Sun 02/08/09 01:01 PM
Smiling at a potential new friend, cloaked in the form of a stranger.

durtydduck Joined Wed 11/19/08 Posts: 1972	Sun 02/08/09 01:09 PM
In contrast to Mr Magic.... but you can go back to those days.. I do all the time.. Maybe I can't reverse the ageing process on my parents or family. But I can go back and relive those yaers of no cares. The problem I see is that we have become to dependent on new technology giving us a better life? Yeah right, give me the good old days. The simple things. Age has nothing to do with it. You have to chose thats all.

Holly4459 Joined Sun 06/29/08 Posts: 34785	Sun 02/08/09 01:12 PM
um - yeah - A walk on the beach.... Maybe I'll add that to my profile

RKISIT Joined Tue 01/08/08 Posts: 16721	Sun 02/08/09 01:14 PM
um - yeah - A walk on the beach.... Maybe I'll add that to my profile please be specific with the feet,meters or miles you like to walk... please

michiganman3 Joined Mon 10/29/07 Posts: 14521	Sun 02/08/09 01:15 PM
um - yeah - A walk on the beach.... Maybe I'll add that to my profile Don't you dare!

Holly4459 Joined Sun 06/29/08 Posts: 34785	Sun 02/08/09 01:19 PM
um - yeah - A walk on the beach.... Maybe I'll add that to my profile please be specific with the feet,meters or miles you like to walk... please Don't you dare! awwww.... you guys crack me up!!!!

AndyBgood Joined Thu 12/25/08 Posts: 12437	Sun 02/08/09 01:56 PM
Cutting a huge rope! HA HA HA HA! Naw, Seriously, I think TP is the most overlooked thing in our lives until we run out!

Rockmybobbysocks Joined Thu 10/30/08 Posts: 3961	Sun 02/08/09 02:28 PM
walking. getting off our asses and just walking. enjoying the world outside of technology. cooking for ourselves. saying hello to strangers. complimenting people outloud instead of just in your brain.