….about the pioneers or people who lived here before the Europeans came.
There was no electricity, electronic devices, vehicles, pharmacies, dentists, health insurance, doctors, modern homes, plumbing, sewage, water pumps, government, supermarkets, convenience stores, police or fire departments.
This was not that long ago. I knew people who lived under some or all of these conditions in their youth. When I was a child, after we immigrated, we did not have running water for six years till I was twelve. We chopped wood for the cooking stove in one house we lived in for about a year. That is all history now.
I remember as a child watching the Indians live in a tee-pee beside the Red River for a full winter and was amazed how they did it.
When something went wrong, there were no telephones or anyone to call. Fresh fruits or vegetables were non existent in the winter.
Most walked to where they had to be. Many of them carried a lot of weight with them when going from place to place.
They made love and had babies without the benefit of training or hospitals.
They were a tough breed back then. A lot tougher in many ways than what we can hope to be. How many of us could survive under those conditions?
Making your own clothes and hunting and fishing for food. Some tilled with horses or oxen and harvested with a scythe, all performed by bare hands and strong backs.
If the crop didn’t come in or game or fish not to be had, there were no food stamps or food bank to fall back on.
They did it, didn’t they?
In India where my family id from ( I was born in the UK) much of it is still like that in rural areas. Lifes Simpler but sometimes a little tougher but if they dont have the pressure of bills etc.
I think in the developed countries we cant to without electricity and gas anymore but at the same time success is now measured in how big your house is and how new and big the car is. A lot of it is unnecessary materialism. I do have a house and land in India, in theory could live there comfortably but the question is can I?
Ya, how’d they live without *texting*! What’d they do in their spare time, read?
What did they do at school without a PSP and Helios?
And the internet! I shudder to think of someone going to a library to do research.
I agree, Ichabod..I sometimes think that we are made of different stuff these days.
Hi Majun;
I can relate to your comment and understand.
Hi Rich;
I am not sure whether everything is beneficial to us or not. I like the Internet but have lived many years without. I could do the same again.