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Nov 1, 2023Liked by Antonio Melonio

This hit so hard. The old internet seemed like such a better place. I’m sure there were gross pockets, but I loved having to actually seek something out. The old days of buying a cd and if it was shit, suffering through it because you purchased it with your shitty grocery store job pay. I’m nostalgic for these times more than I care to admit.

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You and me my man ❤️

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same. I am getting tired of hearing that we only think that we enjoyed those times and that our present is the best time to live. Um.....how? People don't seem happier....in fact people seem more miserable then ever. And why wouldn't they be? Physical places are going out of business, education and healthcare is more expensive then ever, and not to mention climate change and excess automation. I would much rather live in the 80s and 90s when it was actually possible to get a good paying job and be able to go on vacations. Also pop up ads didn't exist!

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Yes the physical space one is true! There are no arcades for young people to hang out in anymore. Everyone is isolated at home because there is nowhere to go. Coffee shops still exist but it’s so expensive to sit in one of those places for hours on end paying for food and drinks. The commons are completely disappeared.

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Nov 3, 2023Liked by Antonio Melonio

Great video. This is all so sobering. I am thinking along the same lines as you.

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When I was a kid families actually went skating and played mini golf! Even as late as the 90s communities were more tied together! I also miss people actually writing each other letters!

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I agree. Writing letters seems like a lost art anymore, so I decided very early one morning last week to write a letter to my 76 year old brother, and another one to his 53 year old son whom I haven't seen since he was in his 20's. I imagine being on the receiving end would be wonderful. It takes time, and writing letters are more personal, and you can save them and read it again. It felt good to do it. Only time will tell the fruits of my labor of love.... It seems at my age I've been waxing nostalgic lately for the more simpler days of my youth. Kick the can, hide n seek, red light green light, mother may I, roller skating with steel skates down a steep hill, huckleberry picking...the list goes on.

Fast forward to now, being in my sixties wasn't all that bad, except for the abrupt shutdown of cv, I was still keeping up with the changes, but turning 70 this year is not so easy to embrace during these times. So, I'll just take it one day at time and watch it all unfold.....blessings to you. ✨️🕊

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It was always an illusion.

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Nov 1, 2023·edited Nov 1, 2023

The “days which” you “so much wish to call back, are the days not only of” earlier times “but of youth, the days of novelty and improvement, of ardour and of hope, of health and vigour of body, of gaiety and lightness of heart. It is not easy to surround life with any circumstances in which youth will not be delightful.”

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As I am quite a bit older than that, I too wax nostalgic now and again wishing for simpler times. I grew up on a poor farm long before technology and we made do with the few toys we had. Baseballs and footballs mostly. As a wee tyke, I remember playing with metal Tonka trucks and plastic soldiers outside. I didn't see my first computer until 1987 at a new job I had been transferred to. I was 31 by then. I have seen so many changes in the world and lived through a lot of bad things, with more to come before I follow the path to the Summer Lands. I hope to see a lot of good things as well before I am finished in this middle world. But I do miss some of the simple things of my youth.

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You're not alone.

For I have known,

It's in the air,

It's everywhere.

We must be strong,

It won't be long,

'Til we're all free,

In eternity.

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