September 18, 2021
We all have different kinds of communities. How we grew up, how we play during our younger years, how we go to school, and even how our parents raise us. Kids nowadays are more advance than what we had when I was younger. The kid's generations now are more on gadgets. Online classes, online games, online research, and even some jobs are done online too.
In this article I will share with you how do we do it back in my days. How we enjoy the outdoor with other kids and how we live life back then.
Back in my day, we play piko (hopscotch) outside of our houses. Since we are living in a compound my cousins and I can freely play around the compound and one of our favorite games is this. We used different "pamato", my cousin likes using a hard rubber-like material used in flip flops, the other wants a flat stone while I like using banana peel. Why banana peel? Because it doesn't bounce when thrown on the ground. We had so much fun playing outside then, obesity among kids back then is not common since most are active playing ourside.
Back in my day, we go to library when we have assignments. We do our research in the library because that's the only place where we can get the answer to all of our assignments. We learn to use book catalogue to find the books that we need. Our parent's back then invest in encyclopedia and dictionary for us to have reference books at home aside from the books that was given by the school. Kids nowadays are so lucky for they can they don't need to have encyclopedia or even go to libraries if they need to do they are assignments. They can find everything online, all they have to do is searched for the topic that they need and they will have all the resources that tooks us a lot of time to find back then.
Back in my day, we can only watch movies in the cinema or we have to wait after 6 months before we can find the movie that we want in video city where we can rent a copy of the movie that is in VHS tapes or CDs. We can rent the tape for 24 hours and then we have to return it the following day for it not to incur penalty. If you don't have VHS player or CD player you cannot watch any movie unless you'll wait for it to be shown on Sunday night special where they play blockbuster movies. I remember we have a betamax player then VHS tapes player followed by CDs and now all you have to do is subscribe in Netflix and voila! you'll found movies that you want to watch.
Back in my day, we are already happy if we have a game & watch. The first electronic game that Nintendo release. My first hand held game & watch was the egg catching and then the octopus. Me and my cousins will fight over on who will use it first because we only have one unit to play with until such time that my Dad bought me a a new one. Another hand held game is the tetris and the brick game. Those days were really fun, days that we are connected with each other physically and mentally unlike now a days that people are connected online but rarely talked with each other in real life.
Back in my day, we have fun thru talking to each other face to face, watching the tv together, doing the house chores together and eating every meal together. We also do call each other thru landline phone but we prefer to be together in each others house or sometimes just outside the house playing different kinds of outdoor games. Those were the days when life are simpler.
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Very true Eylz, back in those days was such fun. No internet just living life to the fullest. Kids now are so lazy, no libraries no theatres as all are available in one click in the electronic gadget. I remember going to open theaters not to watch movie but to meet a good lot of friends such fun.