WHAT A MESS

Everyday we wake up to bad news on the tv, the radio, the internet, even from our neighbors down the street.  If it were not for all the bad news no one would have a job,  because news reports capture our attention by the headlines.

I studied to be a reporter while I was in high school.  In fact I wrote for our county paper,  but that was a simplier time. I can not remember reading bad news in our paper or hearing bad news on the tv stations  (we only had three channels. 3, 8, and 13.)  There was no kissing, no cussing, and definitely NO SEX on the tv when I was growing up.

When kissing first started on tv it was with Mama's favorite soap,  and it was mild back then and I was never allowed in the room when she watched it.  She would have had a heart attack if she had seen how the soaps have changed today.  They are one step away from PORN today,  but even children watch them. 

We as a society have just learned to accept whatever the world throws at us and say it's ok.  I have become so angry at times because I lived in a simplier time and I hate that my daughter has to grow up in this messed up world.  I would have given everything I own for her to have lived as I did.  No I didn't have two nickles to rub together,  but my childhood was something to remember.