Translation by google:
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.
A generation that thought television was stupid and preferred to be nonsensical and talk and discuss with each other.
That one sure is BS. Then also…
A generation that met to watch their favorite series together.
She’s bragging about skipping school, it shows
A generation that naturally preferred to grow intoxicating medicinal plants with their parents’ ok effect themselves and was able to stop experimenting.
There’s just so much in this one
Aka the spoiled brats.
Loving rubber twist and swapping poetry albums … sign me up!
She looks like she’s from the generation that did a lot of those things early in childhood but then discovered the power of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Also let’s be honest: If her kids skipped school to be with their lovers, she wouldn’t support this at all. She probably wouldn’t even support kids skipping school to be politically active.
Wow, good for them. Must have been a great time to be young.
Yea, I don’t think this was as much of a brag as that lady thought it was.
Especially when the following generation which is implied as worse is their own children.