Back In Time.
Let’s start by saying, I have no affiliation with the Cosmic Diner in Bali. However, as I sat down to eat, I noticed all the fun, interesting, and somewhat controversial pictures plastered on my table. The controversial ones would have been okay a few years ago but not now. This got me thinking of movies like Grease and even to some extent Porky’s.
If you don’t know them movies, go and Google them, because you should. The point is not the movies. It is the apparent freedom and hope of the sixties that portrayed those movies as fun exciting and hopeful. A young kid could get a job, pump gas, and make a living. Maybe even buy a house and have the freedom to chase a dream.
Today those dreams have been crushed along with the cancel culture and with the tech that is behind nearly every single aspect of our lives.
The dreams of home ownership and the days of starting a small business with little to no capital are also rare, if not impossible.
Looking At The Past.
I saw signs like Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People In Large Groups This I am sure would be deemed offensive. Or how about The Boobs Are Real But The Smile Is Fake. Some of these would surely not make it on any sort of forum or billboard. How times have changed!
Or how about Wine, How Classy People Get Wasted. Seems like times have changed and so have the fun humorous things in life. The tongue-in-cheek comments and the fun life that went along with it are a thing of the past.
The fun sixties music is also something that has changed and when I listen to it in the restaurant it brings me happiness and joy. It’s a throwback to an era that I didn’t live in but experienced through pictures and movies. Sure, we can’t believe everything we see but it all can’t be fake right? Well, it was much more real than the fake filtered and photoshopped and CGI crap we see today! Nothing is real and everything is up in the cloud. Can’t trust the news, or the people that deliver it. Everyone is confused as fu*k about everything and that is how we live.
The Simple Times.
The days when people got out on long road trips instead of eating out with phones in their hands, chatting to everyone but the people at the table. Yup, those days are gone. The days when a diner like this was the place to hang and socialize not loitering is also gone. Drag races, crazy rock and roll, and the times of easy living are history. Affordable housing and housewives have gone the way of the dinosaurs. Food is being delivered and dates are ordered online instead of meeting and getting to know people for real has also been taken over by the phone in our hands.
As I sweat like crazy from the spicy pork fried rice I ordered, I am sharing the pics attached to the blog here with our group. Some have no clue what these pictures represent and how times have changed. They may think it’s funny but do not know the extent of how the world has changed since the time these pictures originally appeared.
I am going to take a pile of pics here and paste them into the blog to remind people that they have a lot to live for and that keeping life simple and stress-free is the best way. After all our ancestors from the 60’s did the same.
