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When did it all change?



What happened to the days when eating at the table was normal?  Now we are grabbing breakfast, lunch, and dinner from a window in a bag.  Since when did husbands start staying home instead of wife's?  How did we get from divorce being almost unheard of, to feeling left out if our parents are still happily married after 50 years?  Whatever happened to getting married before having 3 kids and a live in boyfriend or girlfriend?  How have movies, music, and television come from the rare curse word to now being boring if there isn't any sex, violence, or bad language?  When was the last time you sent a hand written letter?  Before we know it mailboxes will be a thing of the past.  Remember the days when family get together's were something to look forward to?  Now families get together and spend their time texting, tweeting, and facebooking.  



This is not to say that I haven't been that person, or that I don't understand circumstance.  I am not judging anyone, or trying to put people down.  I know that divorce is sometimes the only option...I can understand a wife having a career and a husband being laid off and so on.  I am just concerned about how all of these have become the norm.  Where have our standards, our morals, and our values gone?  How have so many radical things become acceptable?  Call me old school, but I appreciate simplicity sometimes :).




The simple life...will we ever see it again?  I think not.  We have to make it for ourselves, because this new generation will never know what true "family time" is.  Will they have memories to look back on of playing in the rain with their cousins?..or baking in the kitchen with their grandmother?


  I hope there are still parents in the world who will teach their children about living simply and enjoying real people instead of "cyber people." 

It's difficult not to become enveloped in the fast paced, social media, 5 second lifestyle.  Every body is doing it, right??
Make an effort to turn your phone off every once in a while.  Unplug that computer.  Have a homemade dinner at the table with family or friends.  Be thankful for the simple things, because they are fading fast.



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