I Just Had One Of the Best Nights Of My Whole Life, and You Can Too!!

Tonight has been one of the greatest nights of my whole life, and you can have the same thing, too! Best of all, IT'S FREE!

My daughter will be 17 in less than a month, and I just spent time with her that my great-grand-children (assuming people are still alive then) will know about these stories, because she will tell them about what I told her tonight.

It was all really very simple about how it happened. My daughter met the singers Colton Dixon and Brandon Heath, who both grew up in the same home-town that I grew up in, Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

My daughter asked me about my younger years while growing up in Murfreesboro because she wanted to know if I knew where Colton Dixon's old school was. He had twittered or face-booked that he had once gotten into trouble for having his hair-style to be against his school's dress-code. (That's why he wears his hair so high up :) )

So, I told her...let's get onto google maps, and I'll show you where I lived and how far away your favorite singer's school was.

THIS WAS SUCH A BLESSING!

It turns out, his school was four miles away from my old house, where I used to live. My daughter was amazed! She was like: "Momma! I can't believe that you really were there! Colton Dixon was only four miles away from where you lived."

And then, I just smiled and said...look how close Middle Tennessee State University (where both Brandon Heath and I got the exact same English degree was located!) I lived one block away from M.T.S.U., and we were both stuck in classrooms inside of Peck Hall (the English Department building on campus.) My daughter was further amazed when we zoomed in on google maps to show her these places...homes, campus, businesses in the area.

Everytime that I zoomed in on google maps to show her the places I either lived at or frequently visited, she would perk up and look at the google map excitedly. Then, I used that time to tell her interesting stories that happened to me at those locations, and her eyes would beam with excitement to listen to "Mommy's" previous experiences.

So, then I decided to go back even further in time and show her on google maps where I lived in High School. I told her the crazy antics of my friends and me during High School. Back then, I spent all four years of High School in the Army R.O.T.C. program. (This was the Army Reserve Officers Training Corps.) Back then, I graduated as a Cadet Major, I was the Battalion Adjutant, I was the Drill Team Commander (we used 1903 Springfield Rifles, which weighed 9-and-a-half pounds of pure metal and steel), and I won the "Daughters of the American Revolution Award" during my Senior year. I also was offered the chance to go to West Point, but I chose M.T.S.U. instead because I didn't want to become a soldier. I wanted to become a school teacher, instead--which I did. I was an English teacher, here in Tampa, Florida.

Anyways, tonight was so great because I used google maps to show my daughter all of the places where I lived. We went directly to the houses' addresses, and I showed her the google van's pictures of where my bedroom was, where the living room was, where the kitchen was, where the backyard was on each house. I would then tell her funny, exciting stories about my life in these different houses, as well as funny, exciting stories of the businesses around my house, that can be located on google maps by following the arrows on the street that let people see around the place.

Then I showed her my schools, the restaurants where I used to eat, the shopping malls...and all the while, I would tell her stories about my childhood.

The reason tonight was so great is because some of my best memories of my childhood is when my mother, my father, and my grand-parents would tell me about how the world was when THEY were younger. My mind TOTALLY REMEMBERS ALL OF THE STORIES THAT I HEARD FROM MY OLDER FAMILY MEMBERS! The only difference is, they didn't have google earth or google maps to actually show the areas around places where significant things happened to them.

I'd like to use this forum thread to let everyone comment on their own childhood AND HOW THINGS USED TO BE IN THE WORLD!!!!!!------to show how things were back then (fun, innocent, sweet, optimistic), as opposed to how things are NOW------(fascist, New World Order, obscene, high-technology like cell-phones taking us away from face-to-face communication and interaction of actually acknowledging people--although google maps IS high technology, but still I was staring with eye-to-eye contact with my daughter while telling her stories of my childhood, and not texting her this information....)

Anyways, the basis of this forum thread is YOU TELL US YOUR OWN STORIES ofhow life used to be for you before you woke up to the New World Order; the Bankers, along with the Federal Reserve Banks; September 11, 2001, and especially Building #7 collapsing without a plane flying into it, even though the official story is that airplane jet fuel burned the steel hot enough to collapse it, yet NO plane flew into building #7 to send it crashing down; the Constitution and our Rights being taken away; Fukushima nuclear radiation, the B.P. oil spill and their crazy use of Corexit in the Gulf of Mexico, which made the fish lose their eyeballs and have their scales fall off and perpetually bleed; the CONSTANT war in the Middle East of murdering MILLIONS of innocent people in order to bring "Peace" to the region----how do you bring "Peace" to people through murder is beyond me!!!...the Illuminati and their tango dance of how they show us beforehand a disaster will happen, but they won't exactly explain it until it shows up on breaking news.....

Oh, God...do I need to go on?

Anyways, this thread is about revisiting a person's childhood innocence, when the world was your oyster. Everything good and beautiful existed way back then.

Showing my daughter google maps and where I was when I was in elementary school, middle school, high school, and college just brought back so many memories of "NORMALCY" for me.

I haven't felt this "NORMALCY" for a while, since being aware of what's really going on out there in the world. It was a blessing to relive the innocence.

I hope that my daughter can pass on to the next generation(s) at least some memories of when the shit had not hit the fan this badly yet.

Probably my "NORMAL" stories of how life was will be put into fairy-tale fiction, because no one is going to believe that this is the way that it actually used to be in the world.

SO...everyone on GLP, post your childhood stories of how things used to be before everything went crazy. What would you like for your children, grand-children, and great-grand-children to know about the simpler times---I knew EXACTLY the stories that I wanted my daughter to know while looking at places where I used to live on google maps and the funny and exciting stories that occurred there, during simpler times.

I've got two youtube videos to leave you with, which might help you to reflect back on the good-old days.

Video #1:

Murfreesboro, Tennessee used to be like this when I first moved there when I was 14. (I am now 42, and I know that lots of things change, but DAMN! THOSE WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS!) Now it's all built up with land development, as my Momma tells me. I live in Tampa, Florida now, so I haven't seen it lately.



Video #2:

I used to listen to my parents and grand-parents tell me about their childhood, so this song is very sad for me to listen to, and I always cry:



As all of us GLP'ers tell each other our childhood stories of when things were still GOOD IN THE WORLD, feel free to use this thread to talk about your childhood experiences and to upload music videos that remind you of "The Good Old Days."

God knows...tonight was AWESOME! My daughter knows that things are not "right in this world today," and she was so intense in her concentration on listening to what life USED TO BE LIKE, and she was trying to understand the simpler and better days before everything went to Hell in a hand-basket.

Teach your children what it used to be like. I think that the Powers That Be are trying to brainwash our children into thinking that life was never ever any good. That way, they can make the children turn away from goodness and love, and then turn to the GOVERNMENT for answers.

I proved to my daughter today that life actually was good...at one point in time.

This is how we pass on the HOPE that things tomorrow will become better, instead of worse. Teach the young ones. Definitely, teach the young ones about the way it used to be so that THEY KNOW and that they can return to the way it used to be!