世界在动

看了一篇朋友转寄过来的邮件，觉得有点意思。对某年龄层是正面的鼓励和喝彩，同时带出世代的改变和时局的不安定。有幸被纳入当中，所以特有感受。文章指出的人生历程，原只是某一个社会层次的成长历程，并非普世的标准，希望不要误导外语人士。

文中诉说出生在母亲们没有女佣的年代，母亲亲历亲为的照顾孩子。大家吃止痛药阿斯比林、发泡糖、起泡汽水、挫冰淋糖浆，但是很少人有糖尿病。可乐加盐是治疗感冒的秘方。其实到今天为止，孩子们还是在吃各种各样的糖果，只是可能作者没让自己的小孩吃。糖尿病什么时候都存在，就小时候医学不昌明，误服成药、药物中毒过敏、烂手烂脚死掉的人口数据不多，是没人做好确实的统计，还是真相无法反映在资讯不流通的年代。天晓得！

骑车不戴安全帽、汽车后座甚至前座不系安全带的年代其实也没有多远，世界上还是有很多人用脚在翻山越岭到学校（破寮）唸书习字，或用两个脚踏车轮子载着一家子遛达或讨生活的人。作者大概没见到摩多版公共交通工具，才不久前中国东莞实施的禁摩令，也是针对打劫频繁而不是交通事故而生的。而，有钱人依然开大车在路上狂飙，出事时若死了就一了百了，否则还雇人顶包。到今时今日，许多人还是没能力打的，除非有特殊情况非不得以才会忍痛花那个钱。

我们一直都在喝自来水，瓶装水是无谓的浪费资源，就只是贪一时的方便。不知道作者是不是在家里也喝瓶装水？若是住在水源污染的地方倒是没法度，若住在太平盛世的地方也如此，看来有点心理病。晒太阳放风筝是多么美好的玩意，虽然听说天空哪里穿洞了，我还是会做的，只要有人陪。捉蜘蛛、豹虎的地方不必去森林，屋外有几丛茶树或灌木夹草芭就有了，当然偶尔会有小动物来拜访。父母们啊！问问自己有没有为孩子播冗去郊游或种花养鱼呢？抛石子是女生爱玩的，男生多是打弹珠，那些个玩家家酒、跳绳、打羽毛球、捉迷藏、开武林大会，没有一样游戏不让人玩疯了，因为没大人在【管理】。玩到过激时也有孩子受伤，心痛的父母却不会如今日的父母般先怪罪他人，当然也有因小孩而交恶的父母。回头看看今日成长后为人父母的，是怎么和邻里交流的，你就明白为什么孩子会寂寞。

说到下河捉鱼游泳，什么年代都不应该。过去漂流在河滩的小孩殁了多少，只有伤心的父母知道。大自然美是美矣，也有许多的不确定，生命诚可贵也。与人分享食物饮料不是问题，无知的年代不担心病毒流传的结果，是传染了病毒，尔后病毒变种死了很多人。难不成没听过流感大爆发的年代存在吗？过去人们吃甜食喝汽水加上油腻鹹香食物，没人过胖因为大家早出晚归的在野外地方奔跑玩乐，没有手机追踪大家也很安全。营养过剩这是个笑话，社会富裕但不懂得好好教养小孩，问题在哪里？过去乡下许多小孩不见了只是没人知道，因为资讯不流通下层人孩子也多，警察也不太理会或无从理会。可能说当年坏人没那么多，其实是好人坏人都还没那么多。


我很喜欢下面部分的描述，很真实的过去，表扬出自那个年代的人们。但其实背后还是有许多心酸故事，只是没有人记得或觉得需要描述出来。我来加上括号说说看。

当年的玩意多是在户外的 ，动手修理自己的脚踏车、改造破机车，在跌倒失败中寻找解决方法。（这可能是没钱人家孩子苦中作乐的创意）
没有有线电视、DVD、立体环绕声音响，没有电话、电脑和任天堂，更加不知道社么叫做网络。大家都在屋子外头和朋友玩乐，爬树掉下来摔断了骨头掉了牙齿，知道痛了还是继续再来。（没有室内玩意只好到野外，摔断骨头和血吞就不可取，跌残废或摔死的可不少）
大家不会搞什么生日爬地，直到21岁。找朋友只需要走到对方家门口大叫。（够搞笑的，什么人爱搞生日爬地的？不就是那个年代出生的人，在自身匮乏下为子女搞搞震吗？）
父母鲜少会到警局保释犯事的小孩，因为他们站在法律那边。（无知的肯定是孩子的错，也有可能是没钱交保，或是孩子太多视他们为财物之一，多一个不多，少一个不少）
在那个年代成长的小孩，出了许多冒险家、发明家和解决问题的专家。过去的40年是个发明和创新的爆炸性时代。若你也出自同一个年代，大概也会感到庆幸，因为在政府还没有为了保护我们而太多介入我们的生活时，大家拥有自由，懂得学习由失败中获得成功和承担责任。（我想这部分才是重点，不过再早一个年代，出现的除了发明家，更多是人文学家和政治学家，人愈来愈多怎么反而没有了思想家呢？）

这文章除了自我激励和抒发内心不满的时候，同时也希望作者和其他千千万万父母们以身作则，身体力行的爱护小孩的同时，不要只是每天忙着追钱，而不记得什么是家庭责任和父母责任。写写东西是不难，真要做的好，是一代比一代艰难。新的时代人口多了，资讯流通了，大地被人类污染了，人口流动变大的同时，每一个人的活动空间饭反而缩小了。说到底，一切的一切变得多了、复杂难懂了，而我们的脑袋瓜儿到底有没有加码呢？我想有的，只是刚好还没轮到我。

唉！虽然这样没被眷顾，我还是不赞成使用作者发泄不满的用语 ，可以用My goodness 或 oh My God! 不信神的可以嚷嚷我的天！

【伯母】不好随便问候，别搞笑！

（下文引述自另一博客的文章，以上为个人感受，并无恶意批评，若有冒犯请勿找我算账）

The article below was written by Patrick Teoh in his blog "Niamah!!".
To All those Born in the 40's, 50's , 60's & early '70s...
First, we survived with mothers who had no maids. They cooked /cleaned while taking care of us at the same time. They took aspirin, candies floss,fizzy drinks, shaved ice with syrups and diabetes were rare. Salt added to Pepsi or Coke was remedy for fever.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets. As children, we would ride with our parents on bicycles/ motorcycles for 2 or 3. Richer ones in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a private taxi was a special treat.

We drank water from the tap and NOT from a bottle.
We would spend hours on the fields under bright sunlight flying our kites, without worrying about the UV ray which never seem to affect us. We go to jungle to catch spiders without worries of Aedes mosquitoes. With mere 5 pebbles (stones) would be a endless game. With a ball (tennis ball best) we boys would ran like crazy for hours.

We catch guppy in drains / canals and when it rain we swim there.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually worry about being unhygenic.
We ate salty, very sweet & oily food, candies,bread and real butter and drank very sweet soft drinks, sweet coffee/ tea, ice kacang, but we weren't overweight because........
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, till streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. AND WE DONT HAVE HANDPHONE S TO BUG US. And we were O.K. AND WE ARE SAFE.
We would spend hours repairing our old bicycles and wooden scooters out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .
We did no t have Playstations, X-boxes, Nintendo's, multiple channels on cable TV, DVD movies, no surround sound, no phones, no personal computers, no Internet. WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and we still continued the stunts.
We never had birthdays parties till we are 21
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and just yelled for them!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
Yet this generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 40 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.
PS: -The big type is because Long-sightedness or hyperopia at your age . he... he....