Well my friends we are already into the year 2022. At the end of 2021 I told myself that I wanted to spend the New Year writing more, this is true, I have spent more time on my book then I have on my blog. Now I have started to receive emails from people that have followed me on my blog wondering if I'm dead or alive. Especially sure I'm alive and I do promise and hopefully I'll be able to write a little more into my blog than I have for the past two or three years.
I've given a lot of thought about the possibility of reducing my time on Face Book to a minimum and spending more time on my blog. It seems that most of my friends are presently on FB but I am hoping that they join me on this type of media. What do you think??
TRUTH NEVER SAID BETTER
This sent to me by a friend, and I was given permission to reprint. could it be said better? don't think so.
When at a store checkout the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own shopping bags in future because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days. "The cashier responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got blunt. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day. We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every shop and office building. We walked to the shop and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two streets. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 2200watts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room, and the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the county of Yorkshire. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not polystyrene or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank water from a fountain or a tap when we were thirsty instead of demanding a plastic bottle flown in from another country. We accepted that a lot of food was seasonal and didn’t expect to have out of season products flown thousands of air miles around the world. We actually cooked food that didn’t come out of a packet, tin or plastic wrapping and we could even wash our own vegetables and chop our own salad. But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people caught a train or a bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mothers into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical socket in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza place.
But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we oldies were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Remember: Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much to piss us off...
TIMES HAVE CHANGED................LOOKING BACK COULD BE THE NEW NORM.
I have a personal feeling as to when times did change, and it wasn't all done with the pandemic. Those that know me know exactly what I mean by that. Should they be looked at further.............or should I just sit on them and aggravate myself to no end. Hard decision but I guess only time will tell.
I've done many things in the past, some that I'm proud of, some not so much. Where do I draw the line? Some were my fault, some not, where does that fault line lay. After all growing up was in a totally different time under totally different circumstances. Some would say a totally different world, and after all is said and done, those times certainly were more pleasant.
Well, I will start this New Year with sort of a promise, to be more considerate for writing and also to spend more time dealing with reality and the everyday concerns. I might even consider running for a political office. That certainly would surprise a lot of people....................an old fart with NEW ideas.
What a blast!!!!!!!Stay tuned.
Vito
