how would you interpret or empathize this email from philippines?
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE
1950′s, 60′s and 70′s !!
First, some of us survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. ( sioktong ang inumin)
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, fish from a can ( brand : ligo ), and didn’t get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints, pati na yung laruang kabayu-kabayuhan.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, no kneepads , sometimes wala ngang preno yung bisikleta.
As children, we would ride in car with no seat belts or air bags – hanggang ngayon naman, di ba ? ( jeep )
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat. ( maykaya kayo pare ! )
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle ( minsan straight from the faucet)
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Allan, you did not print the e-mail in its entirety. May I continue the letter from Tin Larida:
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. Or contacted hepatitis.
We ate rice with tinunaw na purico ( dahil ubos na ang star margarine),nutribuns na galing kay macoy and drank sopdrinks with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight kasi nga….. .
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on. Sarap mag patintero, tumbang preso ,habulan taguan..
No one was able to reach us all day ( di uso ang celfon , walang beepers). And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our trolleys or slides out of scraps andthen ride down the street, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms……. …WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were nolawsuits from these accidents. The only ribbing we get is from our friends with the words…masakit ba? pero pag galit yung kalaro mo,,,,ang sasabihin sa iyo…beh buti nga !
We play in the dirt , wash our hands a little and ate with our
barehands.we were not afraid of getting worms in our stomachs.
We have to live with homemade guns – gawa sa kahoy, tinali ng rubberband ,sumpit , tirador at kung ano ano pa na puedeng makasakit… pero walang nagrereklamo.
made up games with sticks ( syatong )and cans ( tumbang preso )and although we were told it would happen, wala naman tayong binulag o napatay..paminsan minsan may nabubukulan.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Mini basketball teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Walang sumasama ang loob.
Ang magulang ay nandoon lang para tignan kung ayos lang ang bata..hindipara makialam.
This generation of ours has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and managers 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 are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
I would say they are big fans of child mortality. lol
But really it’s just saying that people are too paranoid. You are going to die someday no matter what you do… don’t be such anal sticks in the mud about everything. Let people be foolish and be foolish yourself. In the end it doesn’t really matter.
I’d suspect someone somewhere is on LSD or Shrooms.
Ah, the good old days!!!!!
Those were the good old day’s, and guess what, with all the disregard for safety, there were less people killed on our roads back then.
I remember my mother and father having an accident back in the 70′s, my father had a bruised chest and my mother had a broken nose, the ambulance officer said that if thy had been wearing their seat belts, with the way the cars colided, they would have been both killed.
Wow! Very toughie! People before are still a bit naive and not that health conscious. Survivors indeed! Cheers! <*-*>
First off, the situations you’re describing aren’t EXCLUSIVE to the Philippines, if that’s what you’re trying to get at.
As you wrote in the beginning of your paragraph: "1950s, 60s and 70s"… that’s your answer. That was the norm during those eras.
To interpret it.. hmmmm… I would say that it is a comparison of the lack of AWARENESS back then, only due to the lack of KNOWLEDGE. We have since acquired knowledge through science and trial and error, but have not necessarily put that knowledge to good use.
The thing about the good old days is that there was no name yet for this or that disease. If it hasn’t been labelled, then it doesn’t exist. So why worry about nothing?
Those kids then are in their 40s-60s now and I bet you they don’t look any older than they did when they were in their 30s…it seems they are stuck in that mind set….forever 30!!!…ah the baby boomers…..the flower children….the beatnik generation!!! Peace and love, everyone!!!
the good’ol days…ye!! life is better back then…laid back & easy….countrymusic and a walk to remember… by the beach..the ocean..the street..hmmnn…
ops..wish i was in my teens in the 70s
now we are scared of paper cuts.
when my little boy fell off the bike every body was screaming at me. i was telling them so what, i had bumps & bruises & black eyes all the time i was a kid.
they said, yeah so now look at you
all the things in life develop gradually, becoming more convenient, health risk from various consumer or even industrial items discovered and recommended preventive measures but are all for the welfare of the general public.
but during those periods, it was considered safe to use.
The problem is about this period, even with all the warnings about health hazards or life endangering practices, many are still vehemently disregarding the safety measures. Like wearing of motorcycle helmets, the hazards of burning garbages, the use of styrofoam cups and food packaging materials that causes cancer as well as destroy the ozone layer thus has a dominoe principle damage to life on earth are some of the many truths for human awareness for his well being but are still disregarded.It’s like no better than the years of the 50′s – 70′s.
those were the good old days. i still remember that way back in college we still drink water from the faucet and drinking fountains. actually, my family and i just started drinking water from the bottle around 5 years ago. in the 80s only a few can afford to buy cars so you are actually rich when you have. traffic wasn’t that bad way back then. there were no cellphones, no computer. life was much simpler then.
Sioktong is an herbal drink..smoking tobacco doesn’t kill those old people. I know a 90-year-old woman who smokes tobacco (she rolled it herself) since she was 9 and still alive..those were the days where old people felt secure walking in the middle of the road and the beetle was THE car..i like to live in those years.
zzz… yup and beers at that time were so cheap. hmmm…. beer… zzz…
Yeah and martial law was the rule of the land.
LOL, i must be in a limbo. The 80′s is the transition phase from fighters of the 70′s down to the kids of the new millenium who are overly protectd by parents — talk about everything child proof, designer clothes and cribs and all steriled =)
Right you are, allan (and aref)…congratulations indeed to the "survivors" of the good old days! Geeez, nowadays if we are to believe everything in consumer reports, there’s hardly anything we can eat anymore…LOL. I think survival is really a matter of common sense…yes, everything in moderation – that’s the key!
not just ‘em also those born in the 80′s and 90′s especially those living in the rural areas of the philippines.
Yeah those were the good old days. The problem is we forget that even though we made it, many others didn’t. The way of things now also, there is no chance of us being able to recapture those easier times.