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I won't lie...I honestly think I've never grown up. I love to draw except now I use many different mediums. I also like to paint faces on dolls, climb rocks and hills, go on random adventures in nature as well. I even watch disney movies and cartoons. I still dress a bit childish at times too...(Not always though. Just on occasions where I'm going out and don't care.) I also still act goofy as well.
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i still play neopets and watch spongebob on a weekly basis, just something i never gave up!
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I think i still do what I tried to do as a kid, which is make people happy. Nothing makes me feel better than knowing I made a positive difference in someone's life, whether it's through giving a present or giving helpful advice.
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I still play Pokemon. Everyone's alwasy like, "Grow up! Pokemon's for kids" and I'm like, "no it's not." Can't wait for Black and White 2 to come out.
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As a child, I spent all my free time at the library. When I graduated college and technology exploded, I worried that libraries would become a thing of the past. But today, after a long hard road, I find myself in graduate library school, still spending all my free time in the library and sharing the same joy with my children. Up with libraries! :)
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As I child I always wanted to be invisible...I guess that came true...ha, no just kidding; but, as I child I was introverted and now I find comfort in writing stories and telling stories and being in public and sharing what I have to offer. It's not to say that I loved being introverted as a child, but I achieved something that is love to me, whether I knew it at that age or not. I think that is one of the cooler things about aging: that you can live oblivious to what makes you happiest until you discover what makes you "you."
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My five '75/'80...
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My five '75/'80...
Still LOVE animals, and think they're amazing miracles, each unique, with their own personalities and full of simplicity.
Still LOVE hearing these songs:
Talking Heads - "Our House In The Middle Of The Street "
Pat Benatar's - "Hit Me With Your Best Shot"
Buggles - “Video Killed the Radio Star”
The Cars - "Just What I Needed"
Still LOVE to dance
Still LOVE making somethings out of nothings. Although, when I was younger my parents we're well off and we had a beautiful home, I was given very few things that I actually wanted and thus, I resorted to creating nothings into somethings and still do this to this day. It all started when I wanted a tiny christmas tree in my bedroom in the worst way, and so I slowly collected straws, and other stuff around the house and turned them into a tree, with branches decorated with tiny handmade paper ornaments. I was very proud of that tree, as ridiculous as it must have looked.
Still LOVE to laugh and be silly...
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I lost who I was when it was stolen from me by the cult I was in from the age of 19 to 38. When I went looking for myself I was surprised to find I was a lot like who I was as a kid. Best of all I accepted that being like who I was as a kid was actually ok. Though my parents didn't kill off who I was they did try but it took a cult leader to really do the dirty job. Getting myself back meant some real brain trips. Like telling myself it was ok to want to be strong, pretty, tough, best at something, silly, serious and so on. I had been picked on and put down for just about everything I attempted to the point that I could put myself down before anyone else got to me, though they still got to me anyway. It's been a few years now and I put my roller skates back on and stepped it up a bit by joining roller derby, I sing and dance around with the kids and wither I am good at it or terrible I insist I am great. I find so many things interesting and want to know more about all kinds of random stuff. All things I used to be an do and now it's back with a vengeance! ;)
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As a child & teenager, I loved to dance, although it was almost always alone in my room! When I was 6, I told my mother I wanted to be a go-go dancer like the girls on Laugh-In! While going through a tough time a few months ago, I began to dance again as exercise. Couldn't believe how much more I felt like "myself" in doing that! Will try not to lose that part of myself again.
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well, without our childhood, we are no one. But Ive lost interest in most everything I used to do as a child.
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I still ride a bike, almost daily, and I still jump in every rain puddle I can find.
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play outside. get dirty. swim in the lake. sleep over my grandmother's!!!! eat ice cream. fall asleep during the day because i could. listen to joni mitchell. so many friends!!! and no one was "popular". just kids having fun.
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play outside. get dirty. swim in the lake. sleep over my grandmother's!!!! eat ice cream. fall asleep during the day because i could. listen to joni mitchell. so many friends!!! and no one was "popular". just kids having fun.
i'm 58 tomorrow. not much has changed. except my grandsons are sleeping over at my house. :))) trying to feed their mind, body, and spirits daily. hoping that i am teaching them to choose love.
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If anything, as a child, I was happy. That's rare in my life now. I was alone a lot and now I am rarely by myself. I think I am truly happy alone and in this world, that just never happens. I do still make things; crafts and such - nothing earth shattering but activities that are solitary. I think I was destined to become s monk and just missed my calling.
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I actually think about this a lot. As a child I wanted to take care of other animals. I was constantly "rescuing" everything from slugs and worms to hamsters and turtles. My professions of choice were (in chronological order) owning a pet store, zoologist, marine biologist, veterinarian. Yet as an adult, I find myself deeply entrenched in the care of human beings...whom I so often felt other animals needed rescuing from. It's kind of ironic. I am a chiropractor and a nurse. Some days I feel I missed my passion for helping four-legged and finned creatures...but other days I feel I'm completely fulfilling my nature to serve and care for sick/hurt/lost beings..albeit the human variety. Service is service, after all. :o)
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be one with my dog and listen to music... i still do those things every minute possible.
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What I most loved to do as a child, was play without a care. Home-life had a LOT of cares worries and concerns, at times about the most basic elements children need to thrive. So getting away and playing without a care was my Xanadu.
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What I most loved to do as a child, was play without a care. Home-life had a LOT of cares worries and concerns, at times about the most basic elements children need to thrive. So getting away and playing without a care was my Xanadu.
And today, I look at life as play. Yes, there's time for deadly serious play . . . like when I'm transporting 80,000 lbs of concrete product down the highway and trying accommodate all the people in their very little (and crushable) cars cutting in front of me and trying so desperately to gamble away their lives to gain that extra 3 seconds of advantage.
But there's also hours of mindless rambling across the countryside looking for the perfect picture. Time to play with the children. Time to play music. Time to watch cartoons and play with "toys" and splash in the creek (not always "age-appropriate" . . . but involve a kid and you'll be protected from scorn!).
I've played with busses and large trucks; which I dreamed of as a boy. I've even flown and landed a plane; another dream (that I'm itching to repeat!). I've traveled (something I never thought I'd have the resources to do). I've lived and loved and laughed: things that at times in my childhood were a dicier prospect to engage in.
So is this "revenge" for a challenging childhood? Catch-up? Compensation?
Or just life as a hoot!?
A wise older friend used to say life is an amazing adventure if you don't weaken. But then he changed it an said, "Life is an amazing ride when you weaken". Which I think means when you realize that even in your weakness and the acknowledgement of it . . . life is an amazing adventure.
Play the adventure game called life.
(It sure beats the "canned" versions we call movies or electronic games/adventures/entertainment!)
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Oh yes yes yes! As a child I adored art, music and people. I now indulge in all three at huge music festivals all summer. My state, MI, also started ArtPrize a few yrs. back. Look it up. Come check it out. Enter it!!! We LOVE ArtPrize! Also I was raised in a family full of love and these days, the last 13 yrs, I have and enjoy the same. Cheers!
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my mom used to read me shakespearean plays as bed time stories, and I was in my first play when I was 4 years old as chip in beauty in the beast and have been acting ever since
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