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I'm a survivor

joseph1956Posted for Everyone to comment on, 4 years ago3 min read


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I'm a survivor of a generation in which the rain was a cause for celebration and no matter what time of day we bathed in it without catching a cold or took the streets as a horizontal slide to slide on our chests, backs or sitting on the water accumulated in it.

The roof drains were waterfalls where we exposed our bodies and any gap that filled was a pool where we swam.

A survivor of an era where cell phones were science fiction, computers were just dinosaurs in progress and typewriters were the queens of offices, typing was an educational subject and punching IBM cards was for nerds.

Where sharing meant meeting on the streets and testing our skills in various games or sports that existed or were invented by us, in which the rules were set by us; there was no racial or social discrimination and many of them could be participated in by the girls without being shocking.

I am a survivor of the blows that made us grow and of the contagious diseases that were common, given the proximity, also of the natural medicines and the menjurjes that our mothers and grandmothers prepared without needing medical recipes to administer them.

Of the dramatic accidents with skates, bicycles, skateboards, carts and all rudimentary vehicles that we manufactured to move faster than walking and be the envy of our friends, even if that meant losing some teeth or breaking some bones, since we did not use protection to safeguard ourselves from them.

A time when bulling was solved after school with fists and noise and respect was earned by respecting others, where honesty and humility were mandatory, courtesy did not dent the courage, the please and thank you were magic words and the blessing or good days were of common use.

Where the most mineral thing we drank was water from the hose and the sweets were given away in all parts, where there was no limit to eating and the bad thing was not to do it and yet few were obese or suffered from any ailment.

I am a survivor of an era where the television was not our jailer but managed to put us prisoners at certain times through some programs, almost all foreigners. Where the game of seduction was important to make a woman fall in love and demure was sexier than exhibitionism.

A moment where friends were brothers and our houses were as much ours as theirs, where the best psychologists were free, they served at home and had peculiar names that were shoes, strap, bouquet or rope.

Survivor of strenuous teaching where the passion for teaching was satisfying to our teachers, where the subjects we baptized the three marys (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) were the most difficult in high school and to overcome them was to win Olympic gold.

From a post-war generation that changed the world with their rebellion and who were visionaries of the wild depredation that awaited us in the future.

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