A Rogue’s Life?
I’ve been thinking…. (YES, I know it doesn’t happen that often!)
This thing we call LIFE.
We’ve got it all wrong.
For hundreds of thousands of years, our ancestors woke up, scratched their dangly bits, ate, drank, hunted (or foraged), made love, and then slept again (about 3 secs after the love-making!).
Now, we seem to have messed it all up?
We get woken up by a BEEPING electronic device, rush into an artificially hot shower where we smother ourselves in garishly coloured chemical cocktails, dress in our man-made fibre clothes, hurriedly eat factory-produced sugar/salt/fat-laden crapola, jump into our environment-polluting machines which convey us to our place of toil, sometimes hours away, we stress and fret and hurry to meet deadlines, we worry about time & money, we worry about relationships, we are tied to our plastic & chrome electronic devices which slowly microwave our remaining brain-cells, we cram un-savoury snacks into our bellies to help us make it through to the end of the day, we rush back home, trying to “beat” the traffic as they all churn out their suffocating fumes, then we get home, eat more sugar/salt/fat laden crap, slump in front of our brain-sucking life-numbing goggleboxes and end up completely stressed, drained, exhausted and unhappy.
Life should be healthy & fun.
And it’s up to YOU to make it so.
Yes, YOU!
Work out what is stressing you and get rid of it.
Work out what you LOVE and surround yourself with it.
What do you REALLY NEED? (Besides Fresh Air, Clean Water, Nutritious Food, Someone to Love and Good Company.) Go get it!
What makes you REALLY HAPPY? Go do it!
The best things in life really ARE free.
I think our ancient ancestors got it… (mostly) right.
Ug.
When I was a seedling I remember most fondly the toys we were so happy to get. So much so that we would almost pee our cowboy print pajamas on Christmas (can I still say that?) morning.
This was the dream if we even got only one or two and the rest of the colored paper surprises were socks and underwear…which they usually were. lol
1950s
Water Balloon
Silly Putty
Fisher-Price Little People
Colorforms
Paint-by-Numbers Kit
Mr. Potato Head
Wiffle Ball
Matchbox Car
PEZ Dispenser
Gumby
Play-Doh
Tonka Truck
Frisbee
Corn Popper
Two-Handed Pogo Stick
Hula Hoop
Barbie
Troll Doll
Plarail Toy Train
Chatty Cathy
Fake Vomit
1960s
Etch A Sketch
Rock-a-Stack
Ken
Slip ‘n Slide
Chatter Telephone
G.I. Joe
Easy-Bake Oven
Creepy Crawlers
Rock’em Sock’em Robots
Johnny Seven O.M.A.
See ‘n Say
SuperBall
Barrel of Monkeys
Radio-Controlled Car
Lite-Brite
Hot Wheels
Playmobil
Flatsy Doll
Barbie’s Dream House
1970s
NERF Ball
Weebles
Paddington Bear
Baby Alive
Shrinky Dinks
Magna Doodle
Rubik’s Cube
Stretch Armstrong
Star Wars Action Figure
Mattel Classic Football
Simon
Speak & Spell
Star Trek Electronic Phasers
Now? If it doesn’t cost a hundred bucks minimum or have at least a Motherboard to operate… It ain’t wanted.
$600 Cell Phones for 8 yr olds, or I-Everythings, $400 game systems and not to forget $75 games of which you need at least 1/2 dozen to start and many more through the year.
We could make a game last all day with a stick. We would leave Saturday morning and not come home until the street lights came on. Sundays? Disappear altogether.
Today the kids have mold on their asses and dark spots under their eyes from lack of fresh air and sunlight.
I could go on but I have to deal with…you all know. Just needed to blow off some steam.
Jude
That’s Cool, I’ve never replied in a Blog before.
Couldn’t agree more!
I sat outside yesterday, watching the grandsons play in the pool, and staring at the sky. In just one hour, I saw 6 jets cross the sky, and received 2 phone calls. (which I ignored) There is no “quiet” anymore. There is no “homemade” anymore. What a sad state we are in today.