Thrill Seeker

I am just in a writing mood today. I have all kinds of thoughts throughout the day, but I'm either too busy to capture them on my site or too lazy (ok, truth be told just too lazy).

I remember how dangerous my childhood was growing up. It was not dangerous because my family abused me or anything. Rather, it was dangerous because I was a boy. Boys have a tendency to be stupid when they are young. We do things that are not very safe nor smart. I imagine that girls do more dangerous things when they are younger as well, but I can't know for sure because I was a boy.

Anyway, I remember watching "Mary Poppins" when I was a young lad. Of course, the first thing I do after the movie. Jump off my roof with an umbrella to see if I would float to the ground. Nope... didn't float that was for sure. I remember seeing "Superman" growing up. Of course you can predict what happened next. Yep, jumped off the roof to see if I could fly. Nope, didn't fly. So I realized my mistake. Superman will take a few steps before you flies into the air. I just needed a running start. So I backed up about fifteen feet and took off running. I cleared my neighbor's fence and landed in his backyard, but didn't fly. Oh and then there was "Indiana Jones". I went out and wanted a bull whip. Yep, I was whipping everything I could reach. Including my friends. Or I would pull the whip back to hard and pop myself in the head. I was always hurt as a child. Oh oh oh... even better was when my friends and I saw a monster movie one time. They used aerosol cans to create a flame thrower. So we taped candles to the end of a Lysol can and lit the candles. Then we would press the nozzle and voila... Instant flame thrower. That was actually pretty cool until one day I stopped pressing the nozzle and there was a flame coming out of the nozzle. Scared shitless I throw the can as far as I could. No explosion. Nothing. I thought for sure it would explode like a grenade. I could go on and on with more stories like these.

I guess the whole point of rambling concerns the fact that when we are younger, we are more risky. We laugh in the face of danger. So do we grow older and realize how young and stupid we were or do we just become more conservative because that is what society tells us to do? I think we actually change because of society. Look at some of these wealthy billionaires. Society labels them as thrill seekers. So thrill seekers are just boys who have never grown up in society's eyes.

I want to be seen as a "thrill seeker".