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[kaydee50]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

I'd be so happy to be transported back to the fifties and live in a kinder, more gentle country.

I hate the period we're currently living in; the political climate, the crime, lack of morality,  general lack of respect for others.  I don't like anything about it including many technological inventions. 

As a nation we've become rude, ignorant, and obnoxious.  We tolerate and accept it as "normal". I don't like us.

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Agree 1000%!!!  I wish I had been born a decade earlier.  The 21st century is the PITS!!!!

[RNbynite]

@Mersha .........This should totally be understood by all. Some changes made were surely for the better.

[jubilant]

When we talk about "the good old days" that's because, for some of us, they were.  I saw the pictures of these kids playing outside. We did, too....even at night in grade school. These are sweet memories.

  I  realize, however, all children could have had the life I had but that has never been the case.  Our country has changed and not for the better. I feel sorry for what my grandchildren may have to go through. This is the first year  I have felt I don't even have anyone I trust to vote for. That's pretty bad. Certainly something I haven't  had a problem with before. 

This is what happens to nations that take God out of everything. History and Godless nations prove  that. Imo, it is so much worse today than yesterday as far as crime, immorality, etc. Yes, these things have always been around but it is, imo, worse today than yesterday.

[AngelPuppy1]

Agreed!  I feel I was so blessed to grow up in this time period!  I wouldn't want to be a child in this day and age.  Of course, we did not realize so many of the things we enjoyed and took for granted would disappear over time.  My husband and I discuss this quite frequently that we are so happy that we got to experience our childhood the way we did.  Don't get me wrong.  We  experienced hardships and problems - life was not perfect.  We grew up in very poor families and we probably didn't get a lot of the things that others did or get to travel or have family vacations, etc.  However, we had loving family and felt the safety and comfort of our neighborhood.  

[Roscoe the Rascal]

Good and bad every decade I think.  I had a good childhood and lots of wonderful memories. Thankful that I did.  Some not so fortunate and that saddens me.

Times have changed.  I miss my youth at times as well.  

[cheriere]

I'm sure many won't agree, but I think whenever kids were no longer allowed to play outside like that is when we started hearing of all these problems with childhood obesity rates going way up.  I was a kid in the 70s and 80s and we still played outside.

[PINKdogWOOD]

WOW we've come a LONG way Baby

The se photos brings tears to my eyes, reminiscing about how sweet and good and kind and easy life was. Born in the 1950s, raised in the 1960s, really got going in the 1970s we thought we had it rough at times but look at us now. 

We are still going but certainly not much at all sweet, good, kind or easy.

We failed ourselves and the Earth we live on. We don't seem to care either because the way we live now proves it every day. How sad for us to be the smartest yet dumbest examples of the human kind to know what we had vs where we are heading today.

[Goldengate8361]

@Mersha i agree with you 100%. Despite the "climate" we live in today, it's MUCH better than the 50s. Progress tends to march along (fortunately), but usually not in a straight, linear manner. I'll take 2024 any day over the 50s or 60s.

[San Antonio Gal]

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@Goldengate8361 wrote:

@Mersha i agree with you 100%. Despite the "climate" we live in today, it's MUCH better than the 50s. Progress tends to march along (fortunately), but usually not in a straight, linear manner. I'll take 2024 any day over the 50s or 60s.

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Me too @Goldengate8361 .  I'll take 2024 over the 50's and 60's.  

[goldensrbest]

I was born in 1951, grew up in  Southern Indiana had family  get togethers at grandparents house,usually every Sunday,i have never regretted growing up then,i miss so many, i had no idea how lucky i was.