EVERY BODIES BUSINESS
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's, 40's. 50's, 60's, AND 70's.
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked an/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets, not to mention the risks some of us took hitchhiking. As children we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle. We shared our soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter, and we drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because....WE WERE OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into 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 surrround 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 NO lawsuits from these accidents.
We were given BB guns for out 10th! birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls! and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Little League had tryouts and NOT everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.....IMAGINE that!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever....
The past 55 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 recieved this in my mail and thought...You might want to share this with others who had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers, activists, and the government got talked into regulating our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
It's so important to make sure we always have the right to choose, especially at our end times and/or if we become terminal and critically ill. Another important issue that we all have to face is......our ends days of life. Let's make sure we have the right to allow phsician's assistance if that's what we want and need to make it all easier. Then leaving our bodies won't be something to be afraid of.
When my time comes.....My fear of suffering by a martyr trying to keep me alive on tubes etc., frightens me much more. I don't want to have to go to Oregon on my death bed. We do this much for our wonderful pets. PLEASE LET US OUR HAVE OUR DIGNITY AND THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE......ALWAYS!
STOP TELLING OTHERS WHAT THEY CAN AND CAN'T DO. PROHIBITION DIDN'T WORK....REMEMBER HISTORY?
LET'S MAKE LAWS TO PROTECT US, BUT NOT LAWS TO PROTECT US FROM OURSELVES. IT IS WRONG.
LET'S GET
MORE SMILES ON OUR FACES TODAY
"Hell is empty....all the devils are here" by Shakespheare
Lets not go back that far...Okay?
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