[bobnyce]

What's different today? I just took the time to watch "Stand By Me". One of my all time favorite movies. If you have never seen it please watch. When it was over I asked myself what was so different when we were kids. We grew up in a similar neighborhood, ran the streets for entertainment, had our differences but our innocence always came through and we accepted one another. If we fought we always got over it because we were all in similar circumstances and all we had was one another.

Now it is the have and have nots. No incentives to get better because the government will take care of you. We had no health care, not much welfare. When my dad died my friends were my comfort not some social worker sent by the government.

I think we have gotten weak and submissive and rely too much on the differences between us - because we can. We had no choice so we got by on what we had. Can't say that today. Watch the movie it will ring true!