HI Dark, Yeah. I've had to discover that truth myself. It took becoming a father to teach me that lesson.
For example, I grew up in the 70's and 80's and played with action figures such as Star Wars, He Man, G.I. Joe, etc. Although, I still collected some action figures like Star Trek and Star wars into adulthood after I was around 12 or 13 years old I would have said playing with toys is childish and adults don't do that sort of thing. So I gave up some of my care free innocents. Well, years later I had a son, and like me he likes playing G.I. Joe, Batman, and other action figures. Since there aren't a lot of kids around here his own age I often get down on the floor and play action figures with him for a little while. I have discovered it is still fun, entertaining, and it doesn't seem as childish as I once thought. Same goes for cartoons. They now have new Transformer cartoons, new Thunder Cat cartoons, etc and I still enjoy listening to them. In fact, sometimes I'd rather watch cartoons than some of the other stuff on TV for adults. So some times it is fun going back and regaining some of my lost childhood and care free innocents. Cheers! On 2/9/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi tom. > > I'd actually go further, ---- not with the puff eating jack plot, but with > the innocence thing. > > you talked about as an adult "learning that life is not so carefree as you > think when your a child", ---- well I would say one of the hardest, but most > valuable lessons to learn is that actually it is! > > It requires a much more impennitrable atitude to various troubles, the > ability to be highly relaxed within the moment and not care about a lot of > various concerns such as what others think of you, but actually it is! just > as possible. > > This isn't to say you should go back to the actually far nastier ways of > childhood that you might have unlearned, sinse childhood also can involve a > huge amount of cruelty and selfishness as well, in fact in one sense Puff > the magic dragon, peter pan and similar ideas have a very ideal and one > sided view of childhood that is far from true, sinse some children, ---- > indeed some aspects of even the most decent children can be utter bastards! > > There were things I did to other people as a child that I am certainly not > proud of and wouldn't do now. > > So to finish this off, innocence I've begun to realize is a state > independent of age. Perhaps some children have it in some degree, perhaps > not, but it's a state that can only really be understood with life > experience. > > I know that my view currently is very much based on the fact that my past > few years have been extremely difficult ones for various deeply personal > reasons which I absolutely will not discuss. While I'd not wish anyone to go > through that, i do hope I've learnt something. > > All the best, > > Dark. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
