Heck. I'll often get out one of my childhood favorites like E.T. or The Goonies just for nostalgia. So I can definitely see were you're coming from.
On 2/11/12, Thomas Ward <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]. > --- 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].
