In 1958, I was born. The world was a different place back then. When I was sick, my mom would put us in the backseat with a pillow and blanket with some books and coloring books. There were no seatbelts nor screens. (Seatbelts were required the year I turned 16!) When she went into the store, she would leave the windows open for me, and the doors unlocked. There was no fear of me being harmed in any way.

When we wanted to swim, we would go knocking on neighbors’ doors to see if we could use their pool. They almost always let us, so we’d spend hours swimming with no supervision. (We could all swim by then.) We would play outside until sunset riding bikes, hiking, and doing whatever we could think of doing. Again, we had no supervision.

Almost everything was closed on Sundays except grocery stores and restaurants. We would go to church then out to lunch with a bunch of people from church (Sizzlers! 😀). Afterwards, we would go on a long family drive somewhere just to explore.

We only had landlines but no iPhones or Internet. We did have TVs but there wasn’t that many channels, and most of the shows were far more decent than they are today. For Halloween, my mom made and passed out homemade caramel apples dipped in walnuts and Rice Krispy squares. Everyone loved trick-or-treating at my home! No one worried about drugs put in the food.

School was simple back then too. I never knew the sexual preference of my teachers. No one was changing genders, acting like cats, nor gay. Reading, writing, and arithmetic were the main things taught. In kindergarten, I finger painted, played outside, and took naps. We probably learned the alphabet and numbers too, but it was simple. All throughout my schooling up through high school, I never remember doing homework. We came home and were able to be with family and friends. We didn’t even study for the SAT! We had far less stress in our lives than children do today.

The girls in high school and college weren’t tattooed, pierced besides the ears, strange color of hair, or anything like this. Almost all of us had long hair and dressed like girls. The guys dressed like boys. Girls liked boys, and boys liked girls. That’s all I knew or saw any ways. I am thankful. It wasn’t oppressive like most high school campuses are today. Marxism had not invaded the schools, but feminism had.

Most of us went to college without any debt. I even went to a small, private Christian college for $3600 a year which included everything! All of my friends just went because that’s what we were supposed to do (feminism) but mostly to find husbands. A few of my friends left college after their freshmen year because all they wanted was to be wives, mothers, and homemakers. None of us had a dream of having a career. We were all married in our early twenties and began to have babies soon after that.

Yes, sin has always existed in this world, and bad things have always happened but it was a far more innocent time in the history of America. The farther we drift from God and His Word as a nation, the worse everything becomes. Read Romans 1 for context.

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Romans 1:20, 21

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