Do you miss the times when Life was still simple?
By neilchua
@neilchua (888)
Philippines
June 25, 2008 10:15pm CST
25 years ago, when i was still a kid, i need to get out of the house to play cops and robber or hide and seek with my friends. that's how kids play those time. you bathe in the rain with your friends because you're not scared of acid rain. no beeping sound from celphones or pagers yet. no traffic when you go to school. there was no internet yet during those time i guess. i can even remeber the first time i saw a game console, ATARI, which was the coolest thing that was created during those times and if you have one of this you will definitely have more friends that you could imagine. i could even remember the first time my parents bought me a nintendo family computer(NES in U.S.) and the secret code of Contra, UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A to get 30 lives. that was the time when kids started to stay at home. they'd rather play computer games rather than play outside with their friends. imagine how big the first wireless phone was and the big antenna that came with it. man it was humongous. i am not in anyway against the technology that we have right now. but sometimes i wish that everything was simple like it was 25 years ago. when i had my first celphone it was great. but when i was already working sometimes i wish celphones were never invented. it keeps beeping all the time. lol. i guess no technology can actually provide us with peace like nature can. and i'm glad i was able to experience those simple things in life when i was still a kid. i bet most of the younger generation right now will not have the privilege that we had before 25 years ago.
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@Shanna8608 (45)
• United States
26 Jun 08
You have brought up a very good point. I am only 21 but when I was a child I loved to play outside with my friends. Today I can ride through any neighborhood and it is very quiet. There are hardly ever any kids outside. It is kind of sad that kids would rather be couped up in the house on a PS2 or whatever than playing outside with their friends.
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@koharukusumi (1539)
• Malaysia
26 Jun 08
Dear neilchua,simplicity is very subjective. For children at this present time, the technology that they have now is simple compared to children who are born 10 years later. It is just a cycle of progression of the human race. I definitely wish life is simple like it was in the past but we have the power to live that way. that is why people still treasure the old things for example, people wtill love Elvis.
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@subha12 (18441)
• India
26 Jun 08
it was so some 20 years back. life was so much careless thing. there was no tension to meet the goals. there was no tension to make the long journey after office or tension to search a new better job. but those days will never come back.
@Desierra1004 (1213)
• Malaysia
26 Jun 08
Hie Neil, I wish I could go back in time and enjoy those simple happy times of my childhood. The best was with my school friends and our innocence minds we don't have much worries except studies.
We didn't have pressure of going to tuition classes and we used to visit each other houses to play games and we girls love food so we challenge each other in baking skills
And whether the cakes or cookies turned out nice or not, we helped each other to finish them up but it was delicious m
most of the time.
Nowadays, lifestyle of kids are getting so complicated and they don't really know how to appreciate small simple acts of fun like human touch of social skills, mixing with other people etc. Guess the the modern era of technology tend to encourage the children to become more socially handicap if they are not carefully supervised.
Cheers and happy posting!
And whether the cakes or cookies turned out nice or not, we helped each other to finish them up but it was delicious mmost of the time.
Nowadays, lifestyle of kids are getting so complicated and they don't really know how to appreciate small simple acts of fun like human touch of social skills, mixing with other people etc. Guess the the modern era of technology tend to encourage the children to become more socially handicap if they are not carefully supervised.
Cheers and happy posting! @windyzhou (2)
• China
26 Jun 08
agree absolutely!
Though i know development is the nature rule and our life will be changed by more and more technologies,i can't help missing my childhood.no computer,no network game,no any electric toys and devices,but we find so much funny through those traditional games,i always think it's a pity for my children that they have no chance to experience these
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@cherry_chanz (229)
• India
26 Jun 08
ya kid life...school life is precious 2 evryone i guess...and i remember those times too often....i wish i cud live tat life again...
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@nana1944 (1364)
• United States
26 Jun 08
Try growing up in the 1940's and 1950"s! We lived in a tiny town here in Kansas, no running water so no inside bathroom. There were nine of us kids and I was next youngest. The eldest was 15 years older than the youngest. We didn't have electric in the house til I was five. That was wonderful! So we did get a radio to listen to. Our first phone, Wow! A crank phone and it hung on the wall. If Dad didn't need our help in the summer or on nice weekends in the salvage/junkyard, we would walk to our best friends house. It was only four miles out in the country. Walk out in the morning and play all day and walk home in the evening. We did not have trouble sleeping those nights. Yes I do miss those simpler, more laid back days.
@enola1692 (3323)
• United States
26 Jun 08
boy do I rember those days chasing my brothers on our bikes playing s.w.a.t. and adam 12 an atari pac man ahh those were the days if power went out we didnt even know it half the time because we were outside playing but now if power gose out the kids are screaming i am bored with in 10 minutes
@bianca0531 (427)
• Philippines
26 Jun 08
Yes. When I was a kid, I used to play outside with my friends. No money problems and no technologies to hook with. Now that I'm a grown-up I often reminisce those simple things. Every time I saw my younger siblings or cousins playing computer games, I would often tell them to stop playing the computer and enjoy their life with their friends while they still can.
@zhaosonghan (1039)
• China
26 Jun 08
Simple life is wonderful, that timre no playsation, no x-box... but i was very happy,i have lots of friends, and play with me. Now is diffferent with time of before, there is pc games everywhere, Playing game is only way that kid have rest,
they have less communication with other kids, they communcat by msn or webtool.90's kids don't get the simple life, i am so luck that i have a good point.
@sunnymouse (83)
• Malaysia
27 Jun 08
yes...although i get more freedom when i grow up but i need to start facing the challenges, facing the ugly side of this world...hope that i can return to a child with no trouble, with no worry...
@mardanedecastro (2)
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26 Jun 08
definitely. i miss those days when life was less complicated because then, people enjoyed life for its very meaning and essence. the simple joys and pleasures that life offers were appreciated then but now, people usually tend to overlook those little things that really matter but were too simple to get noticed. people now have just grown more complicated and more materialistic.
@Serana13 (2)
• United States
26 Jun 08
I totally agree that kids these days seem to be missing out on a lot that we had. I think I must have spent 70% of my day outside when I was younger. Now it's hard to pry my niece off the computer/T.V./playstation for anything. As I got older, I too enjoyed watching 8 hours of movies and playing games, but those times were reserved for sleepovers with friends; not an everyday or even weekly occurence.
As for the Internet, I remember (being a big fan of Sailor Moon at the time) when there were only 5 websites for that show. And one time I found a soundclip of "Moon Revenge" that I downloaded for 4 hours and called my friend over to listen to it with me. It was like we won the lottery when it finally finished. Now, we get impatient if websites take more than a few moments to load. Look at us now with our fancy gadgets that we couldn't have even imagined back when we were kids.
I'm still waiting for my flying car though.
@sylvia13 (1850)
• Nelson Bay, Australia
26 Jun 08
The times am thinking about happened more than 25 years ago, but they were also kind of simple: riding my bicycle, roller skating, preparing something to eat outside, under a rough cover. Also visiting my friends in the neighbourhood and I can still remember their names too, although I no longer know where they live. Buying ice-cream from a street vendor riding his yellow bicycle cart, or sweets from the corner shop, no big supermarkets then. My school was just across the way too, but I had to leave it and my friends behind to go to another school, where things were not simple anymore.
@monishavakil (1019)
• India
26 Jun 08
oh yes i think about it all the time. life was soo cool with no hassles what so ever. Yes and i do remember the first gift i got from my parents when i did well in schol..yes you have bought back old memeories..
@brucekaushik (891)
• India
26 Jun 08
two years ago my life was very simple go to the college and come home and take rest or play cricket or rome on the roads with friends that's it but now most of my friends are in jobs so no enjoyment at all except for the weekends.
childhood was just great.
@TessWhite (3146)
• United States
26 Jun 08
I not only miss it for my sake, but for my son's and my granddaughters as well. When I was a child we could create anything. A large cardboard box became either a clubhouse or a car. Some blankets tossed over tables and chairs became a great place to hide and play. Chalk was used for hopscotch, and sprinklers were for playing in. Lemonaid stands were for fun as much for earning a few nickles.
Yup, I'm old. LOL Nintendos didn't come out in my childhood. Sleepouts, campouts, swimming, riding bikes and playing in mudpuddles was our idea of fun.Or strapping on those metal skates to your tennis shoes to skate on the sidewalks. Hmmm they probably don't even make those anymore....
@tamarafireheart (15384)
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26 Jun 08
Hello neilchua,
Yep! I couln't agree more, I could go back further than that, when I was growing up in Scotland me and mine pals would go out to the disused railway lines and walk along it, then climb trees, I rememeber that I got stuck on the branch when my knickers got caught. I do feel sorry for the younger generation what stories are they going tell their children or granchildre.
