As you can get from the title, the topic for today’s photo
is Childhood. Randomly chosen but again with perfect timing. Since I started
with Resident Assistants in my last post, it turns out I will continue… This
time the RA is not in the photo but the person behind the topic. It was Mirela
Cholakova, who chose the Childhood topic. Why do I think you are not surprised?
She is one of the most smiling people around, just like a little kid being
positive about everything. Not naïve, simply happy and carefree! J
Maybe the kid in the photo does not seem quite happy (yet) but she is still learning. I took this photo in Bansko during the weekend. My boyfriend and I were wandering around the town when we found this ice-skating rink (tooooo expensive!). But we saw those frustrated kids trying to ice-skate, and their moms right outside the rink cheering them up. I couldn’t resist taking a photo. Not because it was as glamorous as the Sochi Figure Skating, but because it was too nostalgic.
Maybe the kid in the photo does not seem quite happy (yet) but she is still learning. I took this photo in Bansko during the weekend. My boyfriend and I were wandering around the town when we found this ice-skating rink (tooooo expensive!). But we saw those frustrated kids trying to ice-skate, and their moms right outside the rink cheering them up. I couldn’t resist taking a photo. Not because it was as glamorous as the Sochi Figure Skating, but because it was too nostalgic.
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The days my generation spent playing outside, our parents
yelling at us to come home, the toys we had which seem too stupid for today’s
kids… all of this was so beautiful! J
I am sure some of you who read this will actually remember these amazing toys: the slinky, the tetris games, the tamagotchi, the
Power Rangers or the Care Bears! And do you remember Teletubbies? Oh, God! Was
it that long ago? Some of my younger fellows never watched Sesame Street!! How
is this possible at all ?!
Well, if you remember at least some of the above, you are a true kid of the 90s like me. Do any of these apply to you? As a Kid of the 90s, you probably:
Well, if you remember at least some of the above, you are a true kid of the 90s like me. Do any of these apply to you? As a Kid of the 90s, you probably:
- Learned how to use computers before your parents did. /do you recall mIRC, ICQ, Paint?/
- Still know the Macarena moves by heart.
- Used to rent movies on VHS tapes. /and our kids are definitely not ever doing that…/
- Spent hours recording songs from the TV or radio on a cassette.
- Liked visiting your grandparents and playing with the kids there.
- Used to play Dodgeball, Hide & Seek, Freeze Tag, Hopscotch, Hand-Clap games…
- Loved collecting chewing gum pictures, color napkins or chocolate egg toys.
- Carried no more than 1 euro in your pocket when you went to school each day.
- Watched too much Tom & Jerry, Bucks Bunny or The Flinstones.
- Had chalk on your hands because of the drawings you made on the road outside your house.
- Used passwords for games rather than social network accounts.
- Gathered your birthday photos in albums made of plastic, not in Facebook albums.
When I read the post, I thought of how different my childhood was from the one today's children have. I used to hang out till it gets completely dark. I was running, playing soccer, hide & seek etc. I was rarely staying home. Nowadays, unfortunately, children prefer to be sitting in front of their computers/tablets and playing/chatting all day long. They become robots, they are product of the globalization and consumerism that takes away our freedom and will to spend the time outside on a fresh air.
ReplyDeleteReading this article made me reminisce about how awesome was back in the late 90s. No exmas, papers, homeworks, just the freedom to have fun all the time. Nice work Didi!
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