Help, I've Gone Nostalgic

It hit me one day, when I was flicking through the hundred's of television channels and not finding anything to watch. I let out a sigh of frustration, and thought to myself whatever happened to"Oh no" my mind screamed I have become nostalgic. I tried and tried to block out all my nostalgic thoughts but to no avail. They kept popping back into my head faster and faster until the truth came to me in a vision. I cried out "Wait a minute! Maybe a little nostalgia is not a bad thing,"

Well it didn't really happen like that but it could have. What really happened is, as I get older and look back to the way life used to be and how much simpler things were back then. I start to wonder:
Whatever happened to coming home kicking back and watching one of the only six stations on the television, and finding the shows that were good? Now we come home, if we come from our first jobs and keep on doing things until the sun goes down, only to get up after five or six hours of sleep only to do it all over again.
What happened to SITTING on the front porch enjoying a glass of ice-cold lemonade or tea as you actually talked with your friends and neighbors? Now I do not even know my neighbors let alone talk too many of them.
What happened to hanging out with my friends at the mall, playing all those old unsophisticated non-violent video and pinball machines? I learned a lot by hanging out, I got
What happened spending Sundays taking leisurely drives through the countryside, with my parents? I can hear all the young people out there groaning about actually riding around in a car with their parents, but I actually learned a lot on those rides, especially when I listened to what my parents had to say.

As I was staring blindly at the television, deep in being nostalgic, my loving children entered the room and proceeded to wrestle the remote from my clenched hand. I looked up into their television-deprived eyes and muttered under my breath, "Enjoy life now cause someday you're going to miss the old days"

To which they replied, "Huhcan we have the remote."

It was at that moment, as I gazed upon my children who were busily fighting over which channel to watch, I realized how being a little nostalgic in todays, hectic gotta have it now world, can offer us some advice on how to survive in a world gone nuts.

Life
As I watched my son grab the remote from his sister, then he plopped down on the couch and started to flick

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