- Not The Only One!
- Post # 104
- 16 Nov 23
- ” Retro “
- Howdy,
- Thanks for once more being there! Life continues to move at the speed of light and it just never seems to be time to take a deep breath and enjoy life, or a little alone time, which we all need from time to time. Some of my audience has pointed out that I’ve been a little on the heavy side of late, with some of my topics, and I get that. Life can be so hard at times and we all just need a break from some of the heavy stuff of life. Someone had a birthday this past week, not going to say who , or how old☺️☺️ , but just that it happened.
- Retro, `usually refers to something that has been here or around before and it has, or someone has decided to bring it back around for another fair well tour☺️. We most see this with clothing fashions, or perhaps a hair style, by a show of hands, how many of you voted for the mullet to come back again? Who ever thought that the hair style would be more popular than Billy Ray Cyrus’s career?☺️ Maybe some picked it up from that dumb movie that David Spade did called “Joe Dirt”, either Way, I’m not sure that it was worthy of being reran or recycled. The music industry is not immune either, as people cover some beautiful classic pieces of music and do what is sometimes known as “samplings “. This is where they will take a small piece of the original and drop it into the new work. There have been a few times where it has worked, but for the most part it should be treated as Nancy Reagan drug slogan from the eighties, .and just say No! ☺️☺️There should be one single and simple rule, for remaking music, and that is, if You can’t do it better than the original, then just don’t ! . I know that it is just so subjective, but often it’s just all so obvious that they just shouldn’t.☺️☺️. We will occasionally see something redone in the construction industry of building things and shortly thereafter we remember why we stopped doing it that way, and often it goes to functionality, or it just not being very practical.
- This one is just a little sadder, have you ever seen someone trying to retro themselves? Most of us have seen the soccer mom, or someone slightly older, who is trying to hang on to their glory days by dressing inappropriately. They seem completely lost to the fact that they are making other people extremely uncomfortable, by sharing things that we don’t wish to see, especially not close up☺️☺️. I get that some soccer moms are extremely hot and attractive, and I guess the saying is, if you have it, then flaunt it ! , before it gets up and flies or runs away ☺️☺️. I’m not a prude, nor am I the judge of who’s hot and who is not so much!, but whatever happened to a little humility, modesty and leaving something to the imagination?. Sometimes it comes down to do people have any self respect
- . My daughter is now a resident of the sun shine state, and she is a member of a schooling coop, if you aren’t familiar with that ,then join the club, because I don’t either , but it has some function of a home schooling group. When they have a outing , boy is the dress code just all over the place. I want to say that a lot of it comes down to genetics, all moms were not created equally. Some of the moms can reproduce a toddler and look as if they are ready to do a sports illustrated swim suit shoot, and others not so much! . The thing that I took from this is that the moms who bodies didn’t recover so fast or well, you know the ones who have everything covered up, have such a hatred for the ones showing everything off, that it’s so thick, that you could cut it with a machete and drop it in the community pool and just watch all the water just run all over the place ☺️☺️. Again, it’s like they are oblivious to how they are making the other moms feel. My part in this little excursion, I was playing the nanny, while my daughter was in meetings the majority of the day.
- I don’t wish for you to believe that men are some how not guilty of this as well. If the women are sadder , then this is the most saddest ever, when it comes to men. Us guys sometimes struggle so much just to get it together in our prime to attract a potential mate, that it is a complete utter disaster after our prime ☺️. We don’t know what looks good on us and the horrible part is that sometimes that we think that we do, when we actually have no clue what so ever☺️☺️. If you don’t believe this to be true, then just look at any guy’s dating profile after the age of fifty and if the first thought that come to your brain isn’t ” what was he thinking?”, or whatever he was smoking must have been some really good _ _ _ _!. ☺️ And if you look at a profile and he remotely looks put together or has some use of the language including spelling, then you my friend, just may have found yourself a unicorn or a professional player ☺️☺️. I’m not trying to paint a ridiculous picture of people who are using a combination of spanks, hair dyes, hair plugs, and sometimes slick photo filters to make themselves to look younger, just so that they can date someone who is the same age or just a few years older than their adult children. I get it , our culture is youth and fitness driven and sometimes there is a lot of pressure out there, especially if you aren’t comfortable in your own skin. Some people can pull it off, but most can not and the more important question, maybe, why do you want to in the first place?
- When I use other people’s material, the proper thing to do is give them credit for it as you borrow or some how make use of it. It’s not always possible to do that and sometimes things go In under the anonymous author page and this is one of those, some one sent me this from FB, or some other social media page, and I thought that it was cute and that I would share a little of it , in conjunction with the birthday that someone had. This is one of these things that would have to be considered age appropriate, or in other words, you have to be this tall/ old to ride this ride☺️☺️. These are not as much about how technology has changed our world as much as it is about the aging process ☺️☺️. We use to have long hair, now its long for hair We use to have 8 Tracks, now it’s about Cataracts We use to Kegs parties, now it’s about EKGs We use to be about Streaking, now its Leaking We use to have Acid Rock, now its Acid Reflux Staying Alive, the song, Staying Alive, the goal Hoping for a BMW, hope for a BM☺️☺️ Rolling Stones….Kidney Stones ☺️☺️ Bell Bottoms…..Big Bottoms Disco……Costco Rock in roll all night, ..sleeping through the night Think you know everything, think you know your name☺️☺️ Just a few thoughts from over the last forty years, and it really is about how we have progressed through life.
- The above before mentioned things has me reflecting on if I could just turn the clock back a quarter of a century or so, and all of the things that were still in good working order☺️☺️, you know before we were hanging the sign that said out of order or under construction. If you don’t get the reference there ,it could be a new knee or hip☺️☺️. I’m a child of the seventies and I remember a show on TV, called ” welcome Back Kotter”, it’s the place where John Travolta got his start ,but the lead character in the sitcom use to refer to older relatives who use to make weird old people noises, which he didn’t understand, but he was getting a better understanding of it by the day, and now I’m there as well ☺️☺️. Only if I could turn back the hands of time, before my body started to turn against me. I was forty years old , when I took a physical for a job, to discover that I was blind as a bat ☺️☺️. I previously had no idea that I could walk up to complete strangers and say, oh! , I’m sorry I thought that you were someone else ☺️☺️,,only if I would just put those glasses on. I’ve lived a full life with a bunch of stupid mixed in , so to say that I was hard on my body, would be a complete misrepresentation of the amount of abuse my body has taken at my own hands. So, maybe, just maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise to me that my joints are creaky. I’m not even sure if creaky describes the noise of them sounding as if they are doing a drum solo, when I attempt to rise from some place that I’ve been sitting for a while. If not that, then something really close to a woodpecker knocking on a near by tree☺️☺️. If you can’t relate, then , just think about that cereal, you know the one…..Rice Krispies, that’s right , the good old ,snap crackle, and pop, and if your body isn’t making those noises just yet…wait for it, because its coming for you. ☺️☺️. Just one day, you will wake up, sit on the edge of the bed, and ask yourself, what the hell happened to yourself. One day you were young and full of energy and the next day you wake up, you feel as if you got hit by a bus, and your wondering if anyone called in that hit and run.☺️☺️
- There is the physical, but sometimes I think that the mental is so much worse, as you walk all the way downstairs or to another room ,and can’t remember what you went there for in the first place☺️. I’m officially now one of those people who can’t find my glasses, when they are sitting on my forehead. I don’t even want to go into some kind of a retail establishment without a list of things to buy, to only return home without purchasing the thing for the trip to the store in the first place. Talk about mental fog !! I’m not real sure what it is about the good old days being connected to when I could just send my kids to their room, or when they use to listen to me and they thought that I was the smartest person on the planet and knew everything. Now they think back and say, we’ve seen this coming since middle school , and every little misstep is just seen as one more step closer to some kind of facility ☺️☺️. If you loose your keys or forget what day of the week it is, you could be on your way to being seen as fall risk. If you take an unexpected trip out of town without checking with your kids ,your face may be on the evening news as a silver alert ☺️☺️. I’m not sure why so many things just immediately run to competency . One more before we go, but think hard about trying to Retro yourself, before that becomes a real judgment call on your mental condition as well, because if you were in your mind, surely you wouldn’t make the decision to go to a Renaissance fair with someone that you just met at a flea market ☺️☺️,,and most assuredly wouldn’t go in costume ☺️☺️. Whatever, or in some cases , who ever you do, enjoy life before it gets away and it’s all in the rear view mirror. And speaking of mirrors, make sure to look at one before leaving the house 🙂
- Till Next Time ✌️ Peace!
- Sandy The Southerner
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