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We are a generation that I didn’t want to miss or swap…

A generation that went to school and came back on foot or by bike in wind and weather without E.

A generation that has done its homework quickly in order to be playing on the streets as soon as possible.

A generation that spent all their free time outdoors. A generation that played hide and seek when it got dark and built huts in the woods.

A generation that made mud cakes and collected white pebbles and had competitions in spitting plums and cherry pits.

A generation that collected marbles.

A generation that made paper toys with their own hands.

A generation that loved rubber twists for hours.

A generation that collected photos and albums. .

A generation that recorded music cassettes with their favorite songs from the radio and still knows that tape salad could sometimes be saved with a pencil.

A generation that grew up with standing blues parties and kissing.

A generation that naturally preferred to grow intoxicating medicinal plants with their parents’ ok effect themselves and was able to stop experimenting.

A generation that had parents and grandma and grandpa, not old people.

A generation that secretly read books under the covers before going to bed or wrote in diaries with a small padlock and laughed or cried softly so that the parents would not know that we were still awake.

A generation that spent the whole summer together at the lido, in a clique with friends.

A generation that played badminton outside in the evenings.

A generation that swapped poetry albums.

A generation that thought television was stupid and preferred to be nonsensical and talk and discuss with each other.

A generation that could eat and tolerate anything.

A generation that was interested in many things, wanted to try them out and be able to do them.

A generation that learned and was able to cook, bake, knit, crochet, sew, style mopeds and repair cars.

A generation that still wanted to be husband and wife.

A generation that just put the phone down so they couldn’t be reached.

A generation that visited each other without making an appointment and just rang the doorbell and spent time together.

A generation that met to watch their favorite series together.

A generation that had best friends at home who understood you when you had problems.

A generation that could drive a car before driving school started.

A generation that skipped school to be undisturbed with their first love.

A generation that sadly will never come back like this…we enjoyed youth and were excited for the life ahead.

  • Jumi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Ich bin die Generation, die dauerhaft im Strahl kotzen könnte, weil alles bergab geht bis auf meine Ausgaben.