AHHHHHHHHHH MEMORIES!!!
Close your eyes...And go back...
....Before the Internet or PC or the MAC......
....Before semi-automatics and crack....
....Before Playstation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari...
....Before cell phones, CD's, DVD's,Ipod, voicemail and e-mail....
....way back....
....way.....way.....way back.....
I'm talkin' bout hide and seek at dusk
Red light, Green light, erase the map (ma7ou el kharita)
Playing kickball & dodgeball until the first...no...second...no...third
Streetlight came on
Ring around the Rosie
Jump rope
YOU'RE IT!!
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you to come home - no pagers or cell phones
Mother May I?
Hula Hoops
Seeing shapes in the clouds, counting stars at Dusk & starring at the big yellow summer moon raising behind the mountain.
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open
The sound of crickets
Running through the sprinkler
Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom
Cracker jacks(Oath) with the same thing
Ice pops with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend
...but wait.....there's more....
Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons
Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man, Tom & Jerry
Oh, I'm not finished yet....
Tang was the drink of the summer
Giving your friends a ride on your Chopper (bicycle)
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school
Class Field Trips with mushy sandwiches... eat Thymes to become smart.
Ehhh who cares right? Age is just a number.With age comes Wisdom
Close your eyes...And go back...
....Before the Internet or PC or the MAC......
....Before semi-automatics and crack....
....Before Playstation, SEGA, Super Nintendo, even before Atari...
....Before cell phones, CD's, DVD's,Ipod, voicemail and e-mail....
....way back....
....way.....way.....way back.....
I'm talkin' bout hide and seek at dusk
Red light, Green light, erase the map (ma7ou el kharita)
Playing kickball & dodgeball until the first...no...second...no...third
Streetlight came on
Ring around the Rosie
Jump rope
YOU'RE IT!!
Parents stood on the front porch and yelled (or whistled) for you to come home - no pagers or cell phones
Mother May I?
Hula Hoops
Seeing shapes in the clouds, counting stars at Dusk & starring at the big yellow summer moon raising behind the mountain.
Endless summer days and hot summer nights (no A/C) with the windows open
The sound of crickets
Running through the sprinkler
Cereal boxes with that GREAT prize in the bottom
Cracker jacks(Oath) with the same thing
Ice pops with 2 sticks you could break and share with a friend
...but wait.....there's more....
Watchin' Saturday Morning cartoons
Fat Albert, Road Runner, Smurfs, Picture Pages, G-Force & He-Man, Tom & Jerry
Zeina & Nahool, Lulu & Tabboush... the mighty Grandeizer...
Watchin' Sunday afternoon football match (mostly german league)
Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos without forgetting Abou Salim el tabel...
FONZIE.....AYYYYYYYY
Playing Dukes of Hazard
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar
Christmas morning
Your first day of school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing trees
Swinging as high as you could to try and reach the sky
Getting an Ice Cream off the Good Humor Truck
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin' down the steps
Jumpin' on the bed
Pillow fights
Sleep-overs
A 18" black and white TV in your house meant you were RICH
Runnin' till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from PLAYING
WORK: meant taking out the garbage
Your first crush
Your first kiss (I mean the one that you kept your mouth CLOSED and your eyes OPEN)
Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7UP" or hangman" in
The classroom, Remember that?
Watchin' Sunday afternoon football match (mostly german league)
Wonder Woman & Super Man Underoos without forgetting Abou Salim el tabel...
FONZIE.....AYYYYYYYY
Playing Dukes of Hazard
Catchin' lightning bugs in a jar
Christmas morning
Your first day of school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing trees
Swinging as high as you could to try and reach the sky
Getting an Ice Cream off the Good Humor Truck
A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin' down the steps
Jumpin' on the bed
Pillow fights
Sleep-overs
A 18" black and white TV in your house meant you were RICH
Runnin' till you were out of breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt
Being tired from PLAYING
WORK: meant taking out the garbage
Your first crush
Your first kiss (I mean the one that you kept your mouth CLOSED and your eyes OPEN)
Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7UP" or hangman" in
The classroom, Remember that?
Oh, I'm not finished yet....
Tang was the drink of the summer
Giving your friends a ride on your Chopper (bicycle)
Passing a Syrian checkpoint walking back from a Volleyball tournament was a challenge...
Hiking in the valleys and among the olive trees... walk to the abbey is an achievement...
Wearing your new shoes on the first day of school
Class Field Trips with mushy sandwiches... eat Thymes to become smart.
Sitting at the back sit of the school bus was the priority...
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there
When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there
(except for me:(...)
When a lira(Lebanese Pound) seemed like a fair allowance;
and another Lira a MIRACLE
When ANY parent could discipline ANY kid, or feed him, or use him
to carry groceries...And nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to
the fate that awaited you at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of
drive by shootings, drugs, gangs etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of
us are still afraid of em!
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember
that!"
Well, let's keep going!!
Let's go back to the time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
"Race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening (Nar ya nar ya nar ya hoooo)
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
Being old, referred to anyone over 20.
Nobody was prettier than Mom
Scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made better (w tfouh 3al shaytan)
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the Church park.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon.
Older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your fiercest protector
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!
When a lira(Lebanese Pound) seemed like a fair allowance;
and another Lira a MIRACLE
When ANY parent could discipline ANY kid, or feed him, or use him
to carry groceries...And nobody, not even the kid, thought a thing of it.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to
the fate that awaited you at home.
Basically, we were in fear for our lives but it wasn't because of
drive by shootings, drugs, gangs etc.
Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! And some of
us are still afraid of em!
Didn't that feel good? Just to go back and say, "Yeah, I remember
that!"
Well, let's keep going!!
Let's go back to the time when...
Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
"Race issues" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"
Catching fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening (Nar ya nar ya nar ya hoooo)
It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
Being old, referred to anyone over 20.
Nobody was prettier than Mom
Scrapes and bruises were kissed by mom or grandma and made better (w tfouh 3al shaytan)
It was a big deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the Church park.
Getting a foot of snow was a dream come true.
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was cause for giggles.
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team.
Water balloons were the ultimate, ultimate weapon.
Older siblings were your worst tormentors, but also your fiercest protector
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have LIVED!!!
Ehhh who cares right? Age is just a number.With age comes Wisdom
3 comments:
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Never stop caring of it and never let the child inside of you to fall asleep till your next life, cause you're true till that child in you is awake, I believe:)
Your talent is God's gift to you.
What you do with it is your gift back to God.
All men who have achieved great things
have been great dreamers.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you
(this quotation my be stolen from Oskar Wilde, but anyways: it fits so much! this is just beautiful)
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