| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/26/2007 5:53:35 PM | It's interesting to note that for the kids of today, THESE days will be their "good ole days"......haha...so I guess it's all a matter of perception as to what the good old days are all about...
I don't really miss the good old days per se.....maybe what we miss is just us being younger and more carefree, and having our whole future ahead of us still.
I don't know...when I think back, it seems there were just as many problems back then as there is today.....and I for one wouldn't want to go back to the year of 1975 for example, just to be told again by this stupid and arrogant middle age man that I wouldn't be eligible for a student loan just because I was a married female and as such, I should stay in my kitchen and take care of my family....and that is just one small example of how it was in my "good ole days"..... trust me I could easily give a hundred more...so nah!....I'll take today anyday thank you very much.....I have no real desire to go back to a time where women were considered to be nothing....yup I'm an original bra burner and the thought of having to fight for everything again makes me tired just thinking about it ....haha!!!
Love and peace...
Oldsoul... | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/26/2007 6:57:57 PM | | Courting, going steady, hanging out, dating, group dating.... what happened to those days. Even those my age are looking for quickies. Is that all its come to is how many you can screw? Ladies and Gentlemen, what have we evolved into? We're more and more like our kids (that is if your kids are over 20) than we even care to admit. There's more to life and love than an instant feel good. Flowers, chocolates, opening of doors, taking your hand when getting out of a car or chair. That's what I'm talking about. Old fashioned, I don't think so. Proper and charming definitely is the cream of the crop! | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/26/2007 7:57:43 PM | | OP - I was just thinking the same thing. People make plans and then either don't call or show up for the date. You are right, things were much better at that time. It was a time of anticipation and fun. Now, either they are married or just jerks. I am just about to give up on this dating thing. Why bother. People these days just cannot be up front and honest. Can't stand the "wh0 cares" attitude and all the game playing. There is no romance or courtship in this day and age and yes they all expect sex on the first date. I try to still look for the good ones but they are few and far between. | |
|
| |
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 10:20:54 AM | | Every generation calls their youth, the good ole days. The reason is....we were young, fresh faced and innocent. Now we know what its all about, we have a couple of relationships under our belts, we look at things a little more circumspect. We have found out the hard way that love doesn't last forever like the fairy tales that said "and they lived happily ever after". Mind you I don't consider that we are living in the bad new days now. I think we are just a bit more balanced and not inclined to rush headlong into things. | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 10:31:36 AM | Good post, Ms. Squirrly (msg. 30) -- very positive. I think the only thing right now that makes these 'new days' not feel like the 'good ole days' is the fast rise of electronic technology. It has progressed a little faster than humankind has been able to control it -- both personally and socially. But as a race of people, we'll catch up -- we always have before. Either that, or there'll be some type of massive magnetic change in the world, wiping out all things electronic, and putting us all back to the time before the current technological revolution. If that happened, I'm sure we'd find out pretty quickly if "dem good old days" were really dem good ole days, now wouldn't we ??
cdn guy | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 10:37:03 AM | Good thread. I am seasoned enough to try and pit a decade to this. The good old days ended with the 50s as I came of age. In the 50s "nice girls didn't" but of course they did and there were millions of shot gun weddings and Susies dropping out of school to go live with and ASunt and Uncle in Kansascity, or and extended trip to Cuba or Europe if they were rich. The coming of the 60s brough the believe that all things were possible, You flower children led the way and sex was easy. With the coming of the pill he Ladies were in charge and it was Katie bar the door. If it feels good do it.
I think the "loosenes" ended with the 70s qnd the coming of AIDS. Remember the Herpies jokes in the 70s and STD not nice to have certainly but not as mysterious and deadly as AIDS.
This led to a resurgence of monaogomy.
Now the over 45s are back in the ocean for what ever reason, and some are looking for the sexual freedom they had, or observed when younger. Now they are release from marriage vows.
Just my observation and musings. It is my opinion that when a Lady, and you are all Ladies to me, makes a contact I will answer. If we date and if we click and sex happens so be it. Will a Lady win my heart with sex? I doubt it.
The good old days are gone. They won't be back so enjoy today and hope for mew day. | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 11:18:47 AM | I would never want to back. High school - not a single date, LOL! Too shy and hadn't maybe I hadn't reached my peak of attractivenss. And, as has been pointed out, there were far fewer opportunities for women.
Now will do just fine thanks!
There are still some good fish in the sea. Keep lookin'
Cheers. | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 11:35:48 AM | The only place I recall seeing such picture perfect good ole days taking place was on television or in the movies. I think the danger of aging is we start to believe our own hype.
One of my favourite projects was researching how youth were going to Hell in a handbasket as far back in print as the used bookstores I frequented would take me.
When I got to a century before my grandmother I stopped researching. | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 12:28:47 PM | Yes the saber tooth Tiger skins we wore back in the day were so much better looking. The bear claw necklaces really showed who was da man. The woman were home with the kids. if your neighbor had a good hunt he was always willing to share some of his Woolly Mammoth. Oh wait this isn't the past life thread . .........Never mind | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 12:40:41 PM | Aaaahh yes ... those nasty little 'past life' memories. They sure weren't "The Good Ole Days" for me. How I envy those who were actual human beings during their past lives. I was a porcupine during my last life -- talk about tough getting close to people -- and a tree before that. I still have the marks on my finger where I hung Billy the Kid one day. Before that, I was a rock, I think. But that life was rather long and uneventful.
Nope, not the good ol' days for me ... that's for sure.
cdn guy | |
|
| |
| |
| |
| |
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 6:02:24 PM | Yeah, I had 2 past life regressions and one was a real kicker. Instead of the typical 'Once I Was the King of Spain' kinda thing, the facilitator told me "No -- that really happened to you. That happened in this life. Then he told me how to handle any emotional backlash in the aftermath and that what I did with the notes we took immediately upon awakening was up to me.
I tried to research it and it sounded real according to what I could deduce from a conversation with my God Mother but she neither confirmed nor denied. It pre-dated the baggage I'd been carrying around since just before the age of the two and all she kept expressing was how p!ssed she'd be if any of her kids did that to her given that they were all justly treated.
The second regression was more whimsical and the type of thing a person could easily create in their own imagination. The facilitator told us to go into the regression asking ourselves a simple question.
My burning life question at the time "was why do I still have acne?" Apparently in my past life (or highly inflated ego) I came up with the explanation that I was a butterly previously and it's the marks that make a butterly beautiful.
Furthermore, like silver tea sets, it's the plain ones (moths) show each and every bit of damage and look shabby while the engraved ones hide it well and keep their illusion of perfection. | |
|
| |
| |
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 6:58:50 PM | If I ask for a date, then receive an acceptance (ok, I receive as many rejections as everyone else! lol), I make sure I am there! If my date turns out to be a 'no show', I enjoy dinner by myself. I guess I am the eternal optimist.. Always looking to make the best out of any situation.
If a second date happens (she could reject the invitation, or I have the choice to gracefully decline), then I make sure I am there!
I guess this whole internet thing causes people to lose their integrity and accountability. Those are two characteristics I look for, and make sure that I have integrity, and show accountability.
Yea.. I miss the simpler times, where you could count on people to have integrity, and be accountable!
Just my two cents!
~smiles~
Bob. | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/27/2007 7:03:15 PM | somethings never change? and still we *think* today is OURday! TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS !! I say Hello again :)
at least then We had great songs and every song was WORTH listening too!
hmmmm funny how people and music change...
just My song :) | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/28/2007 5:15:00 AM | I'm curious, who is to say what "the good old days" are?
If we haven't COMPLETELY lived our lives, then how do we know, the old from the new?
I have mixed feelings about the past and the future, those days of laughter may be over riden by some wonderful new days ahead, but then again, they may well be the best I am to have.
Any body get my drift? I sure hope my future holds my good old days, although if it doesn't, then I will be satisfied with my past. | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/28/2007 8:35:02 AM | I'll always be the first one standing in the nostalgia line, remembering fondly events in my past, retaining pleasant memories of times and eras from long ago. But there's one thing I do try to do as well, and that's to remember that the human mind has a tendency to remember good things from the past and forget the bad ones. And, as such, it does leave a distorted view of memories and times gone past. Things in the past appear better than they really were because we have forgotten a lot of the bad things.
For example ... I've been in the rock music business in some capacity most of my life and during the 60's, I was right in the middle of the cultural revolution, a high school drop-out, out on the road, touring around the country, playing in a band. So in my friends and family circle, I've always been the one that people go to, to talk about such things. A number of years ago, one of my best friends had a daughter that was just getting to that 'age', where she was curious about the illegal-drug culture and other things to do with late teenage angst. She took me aside one day and said: "C'mon Unca Cdn, tell me all about the 60's ... the love, the peace, the flowers, the hippies ... all those beautiful things ... I want to know about them." I didn't tell her mom this, but I could tell she'd already tried drugs and was at the point where she would either add them to her life or lay them down. So I took her aside, sat her down, and told her: "If you want to hear about those things you can watch any PBS documentary on the 60's. Here ... let me tell you about the other half of it -- the half that doesn't get talked about, the half that has been mostly forgotten." And for the next hour or so I told her about the 60's -- the other side of it -- about the friends I'd lost from overdose, about the types of things that people will do to get more of the drug that they are addicted to, about my best friend coming at my head with a hammer because she didn't want me trying to stop her taking her 'meth', about people putting needles into parts of their body that needles should never go. And that young lady that I talked to that day is now happily married, the mother of 4 children and hasn't gone near drugs since the day of our talk.
The point is, the good ol' days are only good ol', because we have largely forgotten the other half of it. So our perception of those times has become distorted. And this is not necessarily a bad thing. But I think it's important to keep mindful that all eras have good and bad in them. All eras are different and unique to themselves. And as I look out my window this morning, today looks like a pretty good ol' day to me.
cdn guy | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/28/2007 8:42:50 AM | Cdn. cover my reason for not buying into the good ole days mentality.
Life is and always will be part good and part bad. I am a strong believer in recognizing the bad part of anything so that I can deal with it. No denial for me, if I can help it. | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/28/2007 4:19:18 PM | | Everyday can be the good old days if you make that way. If you sit around and think about the "old" days how how you use to look and some of the things you used to be able to do, you going to turn into some person too fast. Sure I can't do some of the things I used to do (some I don't want to do again) but I am happy with my days today. I am still alive and that makes today a good old day in my book. I am making good old days with my children and family. JMO. | |
|
| WHAT EVER HAPPENED.... TO THE GOOD OLE DAYS?
Posted: 8/28/2007 5:06:22 PM | I know exactly what you mean and I miss those good ole days, myself. I didn't think those fun times would ever end, but the time has flown by.
I remember the excitement of that Friday night or Sat. night date (or both), what I was going to wear, how I was going to fix my hair. Going to the drive-in, going parking and racing home before curfew.
Twirling my baton, summer band, summer love. My first love.. wow, wish I had him now and I wouldn't be here. | |
|
Home
login 
