old story

In our village no one used words that had 100% negative meaning. It was "no" and a good word. The first part would slip a bit, leaving the good word. People were very positive, women especially. I remember all of them very old, more than 90 years old, still happy about something. When I was older, they would ask me, a few other girls, someone's granddaughters, drink water only from underground pipe, deep underground waters. It was not boiled, just fresh. We used to make herbal tea, pick grass, put it together, follow special days...