RSSWhen I was a lad…….
Apr 08
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We all have fond, and probably wildly incorrect, memories of our childhood. Summers were longer, the sun was hotter and smiles were brighter- pretty amazing considering that toothpaste then was little more than minty goo!
We tend to forget the poverty, and recession, and the millions out of work, and the strikes and the troubles in Ireland. Do we genuinely not remember them, or were we protected from them by our parents to ensure that our idyllic childhoods remained just that. While we love the new technology of today and spend millions of pounds a year on video games, consoles and the like, we seem to have lost something along the way. For a start children don’t know how to play anymore. If they aren’t stuck in front of a TV screen they are on street corners underage drinking and being generally a right pain in the proverbial.
We made our own entertainment, like pretending to play shops. We would take it in turns to play shopkeeper and anything we could get hold of would be our stock. We would raid the house for the like of tins and packets, and use sticks for cigarettes. One girl along the street was very posh and said her shop was Harrods; she had real things in her shop and even sold mouthwash! We just left her to play alone.
When we were bored with shops the lads would play football and the girls skippy, which was usually a rope tied to the lamp post, but we played for hours until we were called in at dusk. So tired we could barely hold our toothbrush. A blissful sleep followed, and we did it all again the next day.
Our kids today seem to lack any kind of imagination, and while they are all getting high faluting jobs in IT and the like, the memories of their childhoods don’t seem as vivid. I suppose every day runs into one when you’re sitting in your room shooting people over and over again!