8. We would spend hours on the fields
under bright sunlight flying our kites,
without worrying about UV rays
which never seem to affect us.
9. We go into the jungle to catch spiders
without worries of Aedes mosquitoes.
10. With mere 5 pebbles (stones) would be a endless game.
With a ball (tennis ball best)
we boys would
ran like crazy for hours.
11. We caught guppy in drains / canals
and when it rained we swam there.
12. We shared one soft drink with four friends from one bottle
and NO ONE actually worry about being unhygenic.
13. We ate salty, very sweet & oily food,
candies,bread and real butter
and drank very sweet soft drinks,
sweet coffee/ tea, ice kachang,
but we weren't
overweight because......
14. WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day,
till streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day.
And we were O.K.
15. We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles
and wooden scooters out of scraps
and then ride down the hill,
only to find out we forgot the
brakes. After running
into the bushes a few times, we
learned to solve the problem.
16. We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes,
multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies,
no surround sound, no phones,
no personal
computers, no Internet.
WE HAD FRIENDS
and we went
outside and found them!
17. We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones
and teeth and we still continued the stunts.
24. HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
25. CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share
this with others
who have had
the luck to grow up as kids,
before the
government regulated our
lives
for our own good.
26. And while you are at it,
forward it to your kids
so they will
know how
brave their parents were.