“Where’s Grandpa in this pic?”
“He’s buying tickets to a place where dreams were manufactured?”
“What kind of dreams?”
“Driving motorcycles on walls, hands-free swinging and doing a trampoline on nets..”
“You had no gyms?”
“We did not have the internet either…”
“Then, who gave them ideas to do all this?”
11 June 2021
Reena Saxena 
Well, really–if it didn’t come from the internet. . . .
Can you imagine our kids being transported to the world we grew up in? Depending on our age, phones were connected to wall, and you had to dial them. You did research in a library, using a card file and the Dewey Deciml System :). How antiquated can you get?
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I’ve watched Black & White television. Does it sound like a voice from a graveyard? 🤪🤪
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Oh, me too! I remember when we got our first color TV–it was miraculous!
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😀😀
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Good questions, Reena! 😉
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Thanks 😀
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Hard to think back to the times when didn’t have any internet. Great take on the prompt!
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Thank you, Shweta!
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When my kids were young, computers took up a whole room – and that wasn’t that long ago!
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Exactly! How long was long ago?
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Wow! Brilliant!
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Thanks 🙂
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😊
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Hah. How could people talk to each other outside the internet, unbelievable. LOL: They’ll get their due punishment when they get older and their own grandkids wonder at the fossil contraptions and slow communicators they used.
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Great 🙂 Thank you so much!
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I think you are right, some people have forgotten that the past did really exist – and maybe it was a better place.
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It’s important to be ‘cool’, not a relic from the past 🙂
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Dear Reena,
Oh what today’s children have missed out on. Nicely done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you, Rochelle!
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Makes me feel really old when I think of all the things I grew up without that kids today don’t even know there was a time we didn’t have them.
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Our parents did not have certain things we had…like television ☺️☺️
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epcot
upshot
fun at a world s fair
but how come talking lincoln was no longer there?
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A digression: I was the grandpa who took all the pictures on a trip to El Salvador for a baptism. Years later my granddaughter who was baptized heard me speak about the trip and told me I was not on the trip. Some grandpas spend too much time buying the tickets and taking the pictures to get into the memories!
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Being in the frame is important, not just in the framework..
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My greatest fear is people will lose their capacity for creative and critical thinking. A very thoughtful story, Reena.
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The dependence on Siri and Alexa unnerves me. Originality is lost, and kids think they know more than the older generation.
Thank you, Jade!
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You’re very welcome.
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Oh how did we survive with out internet? What a great story, well done, Reena.
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Without internet, and without mobile phones? 🙂 Thank you, Mason!
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Agreed. People would go insane without them now.
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Ah. The mystery of creativity!
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Thank you, Neil!
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