Hello Pat.
18 Jun 96 03:17, Pat Sherman wrote to John Meroth:
 PS> On (13 Jun 96) John Meroth wrote to Maz Levy...
 PS> John,
 PS> Thankyou for saying this.  It is so true.  Today's youngsters seem to
 PS> believe that our generation was nothing but "hippies".  As if we ALL
 PS> lived in Los Angeles, Vancouver, or Haight-Ashbury.  For the most
 PS> part, youngsters of the sixties were far less uninhibited than today's
 PS> kids. Living together as couples was still a "no-no," teenagers still
 PS> got married "because they had to," anyone participating in
 PS> earth-oriented religious practices was still considered a nut-case.
 PS> Apartheid was still the norm in the southern US, no homosexual in his
 PS> or her right mind would "come out of the closet," and "streaking" was
 PS> only able to be considered shocking *because* most of us still had
 PS> such strong hang-ups about nudity.
 JM>> Think about it. How mant 45-55 year old people do you know that
 JM>> are still turned on and dropping out?
 JM>> Most of us pursued a real life.
 PS> So boringly true.
Not all of it was boring.
Most of what real life is about certainly is, though.
We had a saying about flying.
Hpurs & hours of sheer boredom punctuated by moments of stark raving terror.
John
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