A few minutes of nostalgia for those who were children in the eighties, and also a thought-provoking lesson for today's young people.

The instructive and uplifting video is about the childhood of people born before the 80s, as a lesson for today's children, most of whom - for example - sit in front of the computer, press their mobile phones, and not kick the ball on the ground.

It's true, it was a different world back then, the memories in the video - at which today's young people might smile - are still thought-provoking and reveal the stories of a beautiful childhood.

The writing has been circulating on the Internet for more than a decade, which inspired the creator of the video to create an audio-visual compilation.

"Those who were born before 1980 are real Heroes, a kind of real Hollywood all-around badass kids. But really! Think about it, we were born before 1980, it's a miracle we survived.

We didn't have a child seat in the car yet, or even a seat belt, but we knew for sure that there was a lot of lead in the paint of the children's beds.

The medicine and chemical bottles were easy to open, there was no fancy protection, but even the drawers and doors were not equipped with safety opens. And when we went cycling, not only did we not have elbow pads and helmets, we didn't even have regular bikes. But it was nothing.

We still drank water from the tap, and we didn't even know what exactly mineral water meant.

We weren't very bored, we went out to play if we could. Yes who! We were out all day, and our parents could only guess that we were alive and well, since there wasn't even a landline phone, let alone a cell phone.

In the summer, we played in waist-high grass and nearby small forests, but we didn't get rashes or allergy attacks. We didn't know what pollen was, and we thought ragweed was a direct relative of dragon grass.

If we fell, were injured, broke one of our limbs, or simply cracked our head, no one was sued for that.

It was simply our fault. If the stronger defeated the weaker, the smaller, that was fine too. That's how it worked, and our parents didn't say much about it either.

Our eating habits, measured by Schorbert Norbi Norbi's standard, contained multiples of the lethal dose every day. Think of greasy bread, sausage, pork cheese - who knows what they put in it -, the school canteen - who knows what they didn't put in it - and yet here we are.

Cocoa did not contain vitamins A, B, C, D, and E, but it was called bedeco, and that alone was enough for our happiness. We drank Sobi syrup, which we did not know about the sweetener, but it was made from concentrated sugar.

We mixed the lemonade for ourselves and ate the unripe fruit from the tree unwashed.

I had a few friends who knew someone who had a video, or maybe a spectrum (it was a computer of some sort), but no play station, nintendo, 64 tv channels, satellite, cable, movies, DVDs...

But we had friends! People we met on the street, on the soccer field, or at the ping-pong tables, or if not, we simply rang the bell and were let in. There was no need to ask the parents. Neither ours nor theirs. They didn't take me and the parents didn't bring me by car.

Yet here we are! We had the apartment key hanging around our necks when we went to play, and yet here we are!

We didn't learn love from Brazilian TV shows, we just lived it. We ran happily down the street after our first kiss, as if we never wanted to stop.

If a teacher cut us in the neck, we didn't stab him with a knife and sue him, and we didn't complain at home so we wouldn't get another one.

We did it when and where it was possible, and if we did something wrong, we accepted the consequences and tried again.

We knew the law, and when we sinned, our parents did not stand by us. They taught me to live in such a way that we know what duty, guilt, responsibility, and happiness mean. We knew the depth of these words.

That was us. They are heroes of a bygone era, at which today's young people smile incomprehensibly."

Featured image: Fortepan/Béla Szalay