What do you miss from yesteryear?

greendawn

I met a childhood friend recently and he told me with nostalgia that he recalled the childhood days as being very pleasant. I told him they would be since we were living under the protection of our parents who took care of all our needs and we had no worries about anything. It would be like paradise.

I also specifically recalled the affectionate Austrian old ladies who would often tell me I should eat more because I was too thin: "kleine leibschen, du muss essen mehr" (I think that's how it is spelt in German)

And later on, the days when girls that liked you would give you delicious cookies that they themselves had prepared, very different from offering shop bought ones.

Also how we used to go around embassies in London asking for stamps since at the time we were collecting them.

And of course Christmas decorations and trees, Santa Claus and the much expected presents.

So what do you miss from yesteryear?

Cicatrix

Playing games like "Red Rover," and "Hide and Seek" (great fun if it's dark out ).

Telling scary ghost stories and actually getting scared

Chewing a big wad of bubble gum in the outfield while playing softball

Fishing, rafting, and catching baby catfish on our old bayou

The big house I grew up in, and my yellow bedroom with the crazy orange shag carpet

Going for rides in the car to look for deer, then stopping at the store to get cherry marshmallows and Mountain Dew on the way home

Feeding the ducks at the park with my grandparents

Going to the elementary school with my grandpa and playing with the toys in the kindergarten class while he took care of his janitorial duties

Hearing my mother call us in for dinner while I was hard at play, and realizing I was famished (food just doesn't taste as good as I remember it tasting then)

The thrill of finally diving off the train trestle into the river after chickening out all summer

BMX racing

collecting model horses

petting a horse and savoring the horsey smell on my hands for hours afterward (I was kind of a horse nut, lol)

sledding for hours with all of the neighbor kids on the old log rollway behind our house

big snowstorms that got us snow days

bigdreaux

fishing with my grandpa.

hibiscusfire

When people had more love, respect, gratefulness, honesty and selflessnes for God and for others, and the earth in general.

hibiscusfire

PaulJ

Wispa's Playing football in the park My treehouse Lots of my friends I'm no longer in touch with

return visitor

going to a family run grocery store and getting a hand full of candy, putting it on the counter and telling the man behind the counter to charge it to my grandma, and him knowing exactly who i was talking about and doing it.

nvrgnbk

Nothing.

I don't miss the future either.

IT is here. IT is now.

worldtraveller

I miss my mom dearly. She was very sick in her last year. We had a major arguement the very last time I spoke with her. A week later I fould her deceased in her bed. No chance to make amends.

When I see posts here about never being able to talk with your family , I am reminded about my mom and how I wished I had just one instant in time to say I loved her. She taught me a lot about life without actually ever trying. It's been 5 years.

oompa

I miss playing hours of basketball and football, esp with my young teenage boys and sometimes kicking their butt. I miss weeklong backpacking trips on the Applachian Trail. Yeah, I used to be in great shape, and getting old sucks!!

it sucks I tell you.....oompa

purplesofa

I miss 3 or even 5 for a penny candy at the neighborhood candy store, I think that is why I love the little gift shops that sell, candy by the piece, but now its 10 cents and a quarter.

I miss my pappa, a man of my young childhood. I knew my mother loved him, he cared and protected her and she loved him. He was secure, stable, (drove race cars!) He had tropheys for racing, checkered flags, owned a speed shop, had a racing helmet!!!! He was MY pappa. And although I was very young when he died, I knew at that young age what his death meant, he was gone and a future without him was not going to be the same.

purps

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