What do you miss from childhood?

I miss feeling good. Not that I feel bad at 55, but having the energy of youth. Going and going. Yep I miss it!

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Thanks to the drinking problem I had during my teen years I don’t remember much from my childhood…Or high school. From what I hear it sucked ass. So I guess my response is nothing.

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Running out of likes for today on ELR! I miss the childhood days l could give endless likes and love lolšŸ˜Ž
Playing sport with friends and neighbourhood kids everyday growing up and playing Commodore 64 And Gi joes lol

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I miss the bliss of ignorance. Anything was possible when you didn’t know you couldn’t do it.
Toys! I so miss toys. Also earning aches and limps and not just waking up with them.

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I miss other children. With mustard and horseradish. Now horseradish gives me heartburn.

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I shall make a list.

  1. Playing Resident Evil in a dimly lit room.
  2. Scrapple with Eggs, courtesy of my grandma, who never explained what I was actually eating.
  3. Pigtails, I try now, but they really hurt after a few hours.
  4. Going outside, and not being scared of crazies or pedophiles.
  5. A moderate level of safety in school.
  6. No real sense of what was to come.
  7. Things didn’t hurt for no reason.
  8. Is it just me or were winters more mild?
  9. BB guns, and shooting them, wherever I wanted.
  10. Ignorance
  11. Walking into a room, and remembering what exactly I walked in for instead of forgetting instaneously.
  12. Hot Topic, the store. No, just kidding, no one seriously misses that, and probably never will.
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Today’s children just don’t taste the same I’m guessing? o0 :laughing:

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Ghostbusters the original not the reboot.
Watching he-man and not having a internal debate about my sexuality.
Cutting the hair off my sister’s trolls.
90’s wrestling and re-enacting every match with my brother.
Christmas used to cost me nowt and now it’s cheaper to buy a house

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To the He Man, then the wrestling:

I miss waking up to the screams and other sounds of agony and destruction as my little brother and his friends reenacted the wrestling moves on eachother! It would wake me up from a dead sleep and then I would go to his room to chastise them and tell them how pathetic they looked doing the moves. I remember laughing at them until I could barely breathe. Really good times.
He also had a Sega game called Royal Rumble that was so fun to play and watch others play when all the wrestlers got into the ring.

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I miss alot of things from childhood but what I miss the most is my brother. He was killed in a MVA. A passenger of a drunk driving friend :frowning:
On a lighter note: I miss watching my Grandma n Grandpa play the piano and violin together as the family sat around and listened. I have such great memories from being in a very large family!! My Dad has 12 siblings so family events are always a blast!!! Even as a adult the family gatherings are fun with so many loved ones around!

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80’s style horror movies that didn’t worry about social media perception when produced.

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This is probably dumb, but, real cars. I’m old enough to remember cars from the 50’s still gracing the roads. Yes, they were old, comparatively, but they were out there. And 60’s, and 70’s iron of all kinds. Now you can only see them on car auction shows.

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A time when my back was in good shape. When I could twist and turn without having to worry if I’ll be able to walk afterwards.

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Getting up from squatting without having to muster up some courage first. ā€œI squatted but I cant get up!ā€ Being able to sit down or get up quickly without having 4 beers first. Lol

Real toys that would probably be recalled today.

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Playing in the ally, building in ground forts.
Playing with my Hot Wheels cars. (Still have them all, and still collect/buy)

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Preach!!!
I miss when crap movies were just crap movies and I loved it for being crap. I’m thinking C.H.U.D. it’s Alive etc. Don’t know if you’ve ever read Joe Bob Briggs horror movie reviews, but
I lived for them!

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Still gets out and about every week or so. Couple more toys I picked up back when they were still just a couple hundred bucks.
Southern California you still see old rides nearly daily.

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