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How in the world did the mothers and fathers of 30 and 40 years ago make it to old age.
Most worked more than 40 hours a week and it was almost always physical work. When they got home, they actually had to cook the meals on a stove and in a oven. They had to prepare the food before they cooked it and if you were fortune enough to have a garden, you actually had to pick or “gather” the vegetables to cook them.
They rarely had free time to take any kind of lessons, but they did seem to get entertainment in the form of dancing and socializing. They would get together with family and maybe some close neighbors about once a month or less and have what they called a social dance. Not everyone danced and most all the women would fix a dish for a pot luck dinner. Those do seem like they were the good days. But now I can run home, fix a small dinner, bathe, dress in my dance clothes and put on my closed toed dance shoes and be at a dance in less than 2 hours after leaving work. I guess it is whatever we get used to in our lives. Dancing is what makes the world go around for me.
