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Remember the excitement and pleasure of a brand new 10¢ balsa wood glider? Remember your first store-bought kite? Remember playing cops and robbers? Remember the smell of cap pistols, and the disappointment when your backup cap roll got wet? Remember tire repair kits for your bike? Remember rolling bb's at frogs then stomping your foot to watch them try and jump? Remember hide-and-seek, and tag? Ever camp out in your own back yard? Remember setting up your tent on a sunny day and paraffining it to waterproof it? Ever jump off the garage roof with a sheet thinking you could parachute? Remember making breakfast in bed for your Mama on Mother's Day? Remember sneaking in pet lizards and frogs to your room? Ever have to hunt for your hamster in stealth mode? Remember what you took to show and tell? Remember cotton candy at the fair? Snitching a swig of Dad's beer when he wasn't watching? HAVING to go to Sunday get-togethers? Wishing you still could? Welcome to the "boomer", "geriatric", or old fart society. Today, it's all peer pressure everything. Smart phones/models, instawidget, stuckbook, ticktocket, textie thingie, video games, play spashun, and total reliance on opinions other than your own. The only scouts today are for snacks, alcohol, weed, or money. Instead of independence and self worth, they depend on codependency and acceptance. Morals and integrity fell to indoctrinations by schools and peer pressure. Self reliance is as foreign as the planet Mars. Cowardice is masked by intimidation. Role models are being vilified and reviled. Long range plans and goals are caving to the struggles of relevancy daily for the type "B" personalities. Physical effort has been defined as pulling the plug in the tub and fighting the current. Some actually drown trying it! No, we're not the same. But, whose fault is it? Trust me when I say EVERYBODY needs to go fly a kite! If that "triggers" you, DO IT NOW !