mygeneration

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The old generation home

My comments here are for the people that think our generation has stuffed up this country, I am disgusted on a comment in a blog I read a little time back. so I must add my comments to that for us the generations of the last that also care for this country. First I am very proud to be a Australian, and I am blessed just with that fact. This was a comment that was put in a blog in my space.

from that blog....their words ...............

It amazes me that the older generations still are playing these same old cards. The Y Generation? We are not like the generations before who were bigots, racist, who did not accept homosexuals, bisexuals, gay marriages, a multi-cultural society etc. The newly appointed Y Generation is infact feeding the world where the older generation has simply just let them starve in a one for all, all for all fashion. The Y Generation is trying to rid the world of all the things that the older generation has screwed up on. We are in fact fixing Their mistakes to make the world a better place.

So what if we send text messages and emails instead of a phone call or instead of using 'snail mail.' So what if we want things faster that a generation did 50 or so years ago? Perhaps it is just we have realized that our lives are infact short and we would like them to be as quick, efficient, more glamorous and more comfortable than has been achieved before. Yes most of us want nice things, nice cars, we want things faster and we believe we deserve all these things, because we Do. We are all human beings deserving of acceptance and a good life. Everybody deserves a chance to walk down the street even if it is hand in hand with a lover of the same sex. They are not hurting anyone so live and let live. And the most unchurchedgeneration? God does not just live in a church ... yes we have beliefs, some stronger than other's however we still Believe!

Yes if an employed treats me like dirt and will not give me basic employee rights etc, why Should I stay? Why should I be forced to sit in a job that I am unhappy with for the next 10-15 years when I can find something that I can in turn be happy with? Us Y Generation kids Are making positive changes and steps towards the future where the older generations have simply just shown not too much more than arrogance, racism and pretty much turned a blind eye to anything that wasn't deemed as 'acceptable' way back when 'I was a kid.' We are no longer walking to school with no shoes and working for a thrippence a week, supporting 7 children we had for the sake of having simply because that's just what happened back then. We have a Choice and we shall make the most of those choices to mould our lives into the best possible lives we can live.

my comments back............................. where I come from the older generation.

I am from the days when we did not even know what gay meant, to me it meant happy then... and as now I have always excepted people on how they treat me.

I am not a bigot, and I am not a racist.

I remember when I was also young that we had to do what we were told, or otherwise except the circumstances.

I remember walking to school without shoes, but I accepted that because my parents had nothing as well.

I remember getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning to do my jobs and it was bloody cold. Shoes we did not have so we stood in the hot cow shit that made our feet warm, but I did not care.

I remember the days when you walked to school with no lunch at all, but there was always a free bottle of milk at school we could drink.

I remember the days that if we did get lunch it was a sandwich.......on it was sugar and dripping, but I did not care.

I remember my birthdays, long ago when I got nothing, and never knew what a birthday cake was, but I did not care.

I remember having toothache and given cloves to put on it because in my days no one could afford a dentist, the only dentist I remember was the one on the old train line that if you dare told you had a sore tooth, he ripped it out.

I remember that cars are not like they are today, and you could not have one unless you had cash.

I remember that most people way back then we happy with just what they had and nothing else mattered.

I remember that being told that we were going to the blanket show and waiting for it and then when I found out the show meant I was going to bed.

I remember if you did nothing, you got nothing, but I was happy to get a penny for helping.

I remember I was told that in tough times we cannot send you to high school, and get a job, but I did not care.

I remember that at thirteen I had to get a job and work to keep myself I did but I did not care.

I remember my first radio I bought was off a old bum that stood in the bar broke and asked me for a beer, so he swapped me for 10 beers I paid for and got my first second hand radio, I loved it, but I did care.

I remember when if you wanted to talk to someone you had to write a letter, there was no internet and not all could afford long distant calls.

I remember wanting to have my ears pieced and done them my self...and waited up to a week for the service car to bring me the first pair of earrings. I got them I was 14. Those earrings cost me a months pay, but I did not care.

I remember when you had to work for a living there was not credit cards, no second chances in your job, you done what you were told, you had to have respect or else you would have starved, as then there was not hand outs, or no dole.

I remember that you had to do what the boss told you no matter what, even if he spoke to you like crap. But I done it to keep my job because there was no one that would keep me or give me money for nothing.

I remember the Vietnam War when there was young men sent to war, and some did not come home. I remember those years and the day a girl from my school was told her brother had died in Vietnam. I shall never for get that. I did care.

I remember my oldest brother walking 20 miles to his job he was only 11, he had no shoes and worked for two bob, then he got home to find out he had to spend it on a loaf of bread and dripping so we all could have something to eat, but he did not care.

I remember the old car we had always doing the brakes and we had to walk home, but we did not care, walking was always a adventure to us.

I remember my father telling me you got to count your blessings because you think you have it hard because you have no shoes, but then you know you are lucky... when you meet the man that has no feet. I shall never forgot his words.

I remember my father always telling me we are lucky to be Australian and we will make it better in the future if we work hard. He did. I did. he was right!

I remember there was no drugs, and there was not anyone on Prozac for their depression.... then depression to me was when my dad grew up with even less then us and he went to war at 17 to fight for this country and to help set us free.

I remember there was no racism, because we did not have the time to think that another man could not do his job as good as us.

I remember the first color TV we never had it. but I did not care.

I remember we listened to the radio, that was the good times then.

I remember that you did not have to lock your home because no one then came to rob you.

I remember the first Christmas decorations my father had were not like the ones you see today, he hung up a 20 dollar on the Ceiling and said that is my Christmas decorations each year, I laughed, and knew what he meant.

I remember when no one had soft drink only at Christmas once a year.

I remember there was no drugs and only a few took them, coke was a drink, and ice meant ice to keep your drink cold, or something you put in it, but now Ice is and can mean a drug. I remember Mary-Jane was a girls name not Marijuana. but now I do care. Drugs are a bet with the mind.

I remember when the bad thing was to hurt someone, not kill someone.

I remember we never got maternity leave for having children or a $8000 dollar bonus.

I remember that what you have be thankful for and you cannot do what you want, you got to do what is good for society and to make this world a better place for all to live in.

I remember that this generation where I came from taught me nothing is gotten because you steal it, because you lie to get it, because you get pissed off give up, because we all get pissed off but we got to do our job to the best of our ability.

The only way you get something like a nice car, a house, and beautiful things is because.................... there is no luck in it is just hard work.

Some of us fight against all and wonder why we do not get ahead, not all life is easy but everyone has their own crosses to bear, and do not make assumptions that having children is easy, when you wear that shoe tell us what you think?

My generation, has worked hard to give our children a better education, a better life then we started with, why should we have to keep giving when many young people today think we stuffed this country up, because let them look at their own ideas about being happy and it is a lot of material things that the bank loans them for but that is easier to them then saving for that rainy day and paying cash.

If you don't want to have nothing get off your arse and go work for it, if you want a home work for it as that is the only way you will get it. It is easy to say it is to hard but we all got to do it. No one gets nothing for nothing, we all are just so lucky to be born in the best country in the world.'

If you think my generation and my fathers and my grandfathers were easy, you have got a lot to learn.

You have to learn respect then you get it back, do not blame our generation for you mistakes, because that is a lie.

I remember you had to make do with all you had, and most people did.

I remember many things and could write here until the cows come home. But I wanted to explain that the words written in the blog by a person who thinks we do not matter now or our efforts of the past. And my father was a Anzac and I am very proud of him, so don't piss on our older generations memory they done more with what they had in those days then we all have done and have now.

Well I got to go back to my comfortable life now and my good job, and it is good to have a good life but it did not come easy, so thank you for reading this if you do and I hope I made a few things clearer on my generation and my fathers.

They shall not grow old as we who are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

'FOR YOUR TOMORROW WE GAVE OUR TODAY'

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~ Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~

Dedicated to all Australians that gave all and made this such a great country to live in

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