"I Can't Believe We Made It!"

"I Can't Believe We Made It!"

As we seniors, we seasoned citizens, we ‘ol folk, we old farts prepare for our “end of life consultations,” you know, those Obamacare-required late-life, chitchats with our physicians and/or government bureaucrats who will determine whether we deserve to live or die, (Don’t call them death panels!), it’s good to reflect that we’ve had a pretty good run.

At least that’s the premise behind Vimeo.com’s video titled, “I Can’t Believe We Made It.”

Introduced by the statement, “If you grew up in the 1950′s through the 1980′s this is a tribute to you making it to adulthood,” the video begins with pictures of a bunch of happy swingers, not the modern version of that term but kids enjoying swings in a park, biking, swimming, ball playing, even fighting.

  

We cavorted sans benefit of helmets or parental overseers and without fearing sugary drinks, fattening foods, the Great Outdoors, or falling out of trees and breaking an arm or leg.

 

We didn’t blame or sue someone if we did get hurt and grudgingly accepted the unfortunate facts of life that some of us weren’t as athletic or as smart or as lucky as others.

 

We weren’t immune from all fears, however. . .  (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=35168.)