When I Was Young...

Well, this subject can really go on forever, though I don't quite remember my teen years, but it was always so tame, nothing ever really happened... But overall, I was a good kid... just average, no thrills... Remembering now ditching school though when I was in 5th grade [my second year in America], hmm... I got busted big time. Caught and lectured! I was 11 and I just thought: "What's the big deal!?!" At the time, it was really rough for my family, but I turned out to be an okay kid, or at least I'd like to think that!

Today I came across this blog *PL(ay)+, and to me, the kid behind it is quite amazing. I reckon that he's a spunky little kid, just barely turning 14... and that got me thinking: What the hell was I doing when I was his age? Junior high school and I don't remember a thing. Oh yeah, remember failing classes here and there... I think one time in high school I had a 1.2 GPA, but I think I was taking only 2 classes, and obviously failing both. Tragic!

Now when I look at myself, I don't think I'm all that bright yet I ain't all that dim either. I still don't quite know what I'm really good at, but I do know what I like when I see it. Like this kid I mentioned above, so brilliant... Right now I'm catching myself thinking: Why couldn't I be like him when I was young... be as bright and worldly as he is now? But that thought just came and went... I'm just so glad for him that he has the internet to play with, and has his own blog, all the adventures that life has to offer him and everything else in between...

No matter which road we take, we're all destined to be only but ourselves!

Music: Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup