I wish it was 1950.
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I wish it was 1950.
| Fri, 08-31-2007 - 1:07am |
I was never around then, but i've heard the world was safer and the men were different. I watch those movies set in the 50's and men were actually courting women with the best of intentions. ( im sure there were still the occasional bad seeds) They wanted to get married and start families. They took women on dates, besides bars with their buddies, and kissed then goodnight without trying to get an invitation inside. I wish i was there then. Somehow...things just seemed simpler.

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I see what you mean and for me your statement goes beyond dating and marriage. Back then people lived in real communities-- people knew who lived next door to them, you didn't live in a highrise where people barely said hello and hid behind their computer screens... back then, when something bad happened to a neighbor everyone chipped in and helped out, when a boy asked out a girl down the block he was on his best behavior because his mother knew the girl's mother and there was such a thing as embarassing yourself and your family-- something that hardly seems to exist today.
People were accountable for each other and in some regards, was it really such a bad thing? It wasn't a ME culture. A while ago I had to go to the hospital and guess who drove me and helped me out and brought me food. My mom. I'm 31 years old and I had to count on my mom. Imagine if she wasn't there? If my father was dead too? If I had no siblings in the area? Of course I have friends, but they have jobs they need to go to in order to survive. They can't really take off. And only recently did I start talking to my neighbors. What did I learn that day? That if I had no family I have to PAY SOMEONE TO CARE ABOUT ME.
Some will say there's more to life than love and marriage and family. Sure, there's following your dreams, treating yourself well to expensive things and vacations, going to school... but when you're laying in a hospital bed praying you don't have a terminal illness and that your biopsy results are negative, all of that suddenly means squat and you're sure glad you have a family, and maybe even a few good neighbors who give a damn.
Hey, I'm not going to lie. I'd take some sausage right about now. But given the chance, I'd take the whole stinkin pig!
Plus I also love bacon!
Edited 8/31/2007 12:13 pm ET by capegirardeau
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