Lately, I have a lot of time to sit around and think (listens for crickets), and today I happened to be watching some TV program when a commercial for Chuck E. Cheese came on. The kids were having a blast, playing on all those toys, running themselves into the dirt. I'm sure they'd passout before they'd give up playing...
I got to thinking, "Damn, kids have it good." They get all the cool shit. They can do stupid things and no one looks at them funny. They can take the simplest thing and turn it into a toy. Hell, my son creates monstrousterous swords out of paper and cardboard on a daily basis. He plays with them until they break (which is about 15 minutes), then goes and makes an even bigger, badder, and better one.
When we buy him playdough, he just lumps it all together in one big, grotesque, blob of brownish red poop looking stuff. Seriously, he just dumps it out onto the counter and slaps it all together. Not even 1.5 seconds out of the containers. No need for variation, apparently--but it's all good, right? Then he plays with it until it's hard and crunchy, or until it's all smeared into the rug around the kitchen counter. Good times.
Being an adult, we don't get to have that kind of fun. Well, we're not supposed to--if we do, people look at us like we're irresponsible or just plain crazy. I miss those times as a kid, riding the big wheel, making forts out of the couch cushions, building giant towns out of my plastic animals with my cousins and sister. I'm too big to play in the ball pen at Chuck E. Cheese. Can't ride one of those bouncey horses either. I'd probably kill myself if I played on the jungle gym or monkey bars.
But damn, I miss doing that stuff. I was half tempted to go buy myself a lego castle today and build the biggest ass fortress in the history of legodom. Maybe I will.
So, crew, what things do you miss about childhood? For some of us here, we really have to think, but I know everyone has at least one or two things they can recall from their days as a small fry! Speak up!
Posted by Zoso at February 1, 2006 07:51 PMWhole pies, whole packs of cookies, cupcakes, bags of chocolate chip morsels, all that shit. I put away an entire tin of Sara Lee poundcake once, and my grandmother just laughed. I could pile on 4, 5 scoops of icecream on top of a goddamn sweet potato pie. I do that stuff now and it's like, "What.The.FUCK, DeLan. Binging?? You wanna go back to the clinic?!" OH SHI- RUN!
Posted by: J00kst3r at February 1, 2006 09:39 PMI miss playing in the garden, making up games, not having responsibilities. But then I'm still a big kid, really.
Let's meet up halfway between England and America (which is a secret island in the sea, don't you know) and play with some Playdough and swing on some monkey bars. =D!
Posted by: DR at February 2, 2006 04:42 AMI think adults CHOOSE not to have fun. I don't think anyone stops us.
How many people willingly go outside and play in the dirt with their kids? Grandma is in her 70's and she STILL plays baseball with the kids.
Adults just worry too much about the insignifigant things like ruining their clothes, looking a little silly, or being too "busy".
Remember when you and J visited and we went to Gameworks? Lol, talking about looking like fools.
If you want to build a lego castle (they don't make em like they use to) do it!
People are always going to find something to complain about. Like when mom complains about other people's hobbies or collections, I always point out that she gets her kicks taking pictures of tombstones and reading about dead people.
Whatever floats your boat!
Posted by: Sarah at February 2, 2006 07:50 AMLOL Gameworks was fun. Especially bowling in the forest.
Posted by: Zoso at February 2, 2006 09:13 AMThis will sound odd considering my age (I'm eighteen), but I miss not having to worry about the future the way I do now. I miss being able to run around screaming outside and no one caring. I miss just being silly and weird without being told I had to "act like a young lady".
....I miss knowing how to be happy.
Posted by: Kantama at February 2, 2006 03:47 PMI agree with Kantama, I do miss knowing how to be happy. Ever since late middle school/high school, I've always had trouble finding time to be happy and not worrying about what the future was going to bring. I remember even when I was younger, after 9/11, worrying about whether there was going to be a world war and if we were going to get bombed. I started having nightmares about it, and still do.
I'm also petrified of losing my friends now that they're all at the stage of going off with their boyfriends and doing things while I have to stay home doing homework or chores for my mom. I love to swing out on the swings out back, even though I'm WAY to old for that now, I still do it when I have a free moment and the neighbors aren't messing around outside. They think I'm freaky anyway.
This also may sound a little weird coming from me seeing as I'm only 15, turning 16 early next month. For me, turning 16 should be exciting and fun, but it seems like a death sentence anymore. I have to get a job, I have to get a car, I have to pay for insurance, I have to be even more careful around my parents among other things. Between homework and everything else, I don't even want to think about where a boyfriend or even my friends fit in there. I don't want to turn 16, it just symbolizes bad things for me.
It's sad that at this age I'm looking back and going, 'I wish I was a little kid again.' What's worse is that time seems to whizzing by right now and I can barely keep track of the events of a regular school week.*sighs* Growing up isn't all that fun anymore.
Posted by: Vampire_Fire at February 2, 2006 04:57 PMThank God someone feels the same way!
Posted by: Kantama at February 3, 2006 10:03 PMGeez you guys! Talk about depressing! Chin up, little campers! Take life one stride at a time and don't let the bad times over whelm you. Sure, you're gonna worry (lord knows I do), things will be hard, but if you learn something from them, it all equals out in the end.
You're all good people, you'll do just fine! :)
Posted by: Zoso at February 3, 2006 10:06 PMWow. This was just crossing my mind earlyer in the week, and now that I've decided to check back up on your blog (I haven't since last year in march I think...) and find this, it really does hit something inside me that's really upsetting.
Even though I'm 13 --14 on the 16th of march, my childhood ended all too early. My life only a few years ago was so very care free, every day seemed just the same, though different with each unique adventure springing it's way into my memories. But when I was 10, my uncle was murdured, and I had to pick up some responsibility around my house, thus losing my time to imagine my way through life as I used to. And even worse,just a year and a half ago, my father died in a freak accident, and now my childhood is litterally done with. I don't feel so much as the same passion for childhood activities such as dolls, or playing with friends in the vast backyard they had usually acting out as characters from our favorite tv show, as I used to love that sort of thing and would do ANYTHING to be able to do it whenever I wanted to. Ohh how the world I grew up supposedly knowing so well has changed, and the customs I've not quite picked up on enjoy stabbing me in the heart with reality.
Does anyone else remember saying to your parents 'it won't happen to me,' whenever they warned you that what you were doing was either stupid or dangerous, in the fact that you'd be trying something that you'd seen on tv or something, and in the end you're in your parents arms crying because you've hurt yourself even after they warned you so many times? I dunno, that could just be one of the things that happened to me, because in the years of 6-9 I thought I was invicible... XD
Aaanyway... this is getting way long. Sorry for attacking your forum thingy with something so pathetic. o_O Gomeno, and I say go for the lego idea. (those things are fun...)
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