Summers of Early Teens
There are some stupid things I’ve done in the past. Things that looking back were really, really stupid. I don’t regret them for a moment. So maybe abseiling 165ft off a quarry wall when they thought I’d done it before wasn’t the smartest thing, but I’m still here.
Those are the things I look back and smirk at. All the crazy stuff like being chased down the road by a taxi at midnight when I was 13, and playing ‘hedge jumping’ (basically jumping through a hedge). Or the time my friend and I found a sick pigeon and took it home. Such innocent fun.
And then there’s the other stupid stuff that I pretend I don’t remember. The stupid stuff that I wasn’t smiling at then or now. Not just embarrassing things, I can live with embarrassment.
In many ways I hope I haven’t changed that much from my early teens. My friends are different, and in many ways my outlook is different. There are still times when I do things and think ‘this is totally stupid’. I like to think I won’t stop then.
Sure I can be cultured and mature and intelligent. But what will I remember then?
Posted by straighttalker05 @ 12:15 PM::
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3 Comments:
It's fun to be stupid every so often. I have many fond memories of stupid crap I've done, like that time my freshman year of college when I streaked across the middle of campus with my friends and had an asthma attack and was incredibly lucky that one of my asthmatic friends had the presence of mind to have her inhaler with her. Good times. ;)
Being stupid is one of those things that makes us feel alive. I do completely stupid things often. Usually without meaning to.
If we never did stupid things, then we'd be downright dangerous, becuase we'd never done all those stupid things that teach us not to be so stupid in future, eh?
I think that makes sense, in some random reality somewhere...
Ah, but I'm one of these people who doesn't learn from doing stupid things...
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