Being 11, I was finally able to do so much for myself. I wasn’t a “little kid” any more. At 11 we found some kind of independence, mixed with a “real” innocence. The world was wide open; I didn’t want a job to work, instead of going to school. I’d rather go to school than do my chores.
My weekly highlight was spending my allowance on a Saturday afternoon movie. The movie was under a buck at The Vogue; Popcorn (free refill!) and Redvines. All for under 5 bucks, Ha, I didn’t even know years later we would commercialize such innocence and call it “MasterCard Priceless.”
Please help me remember that I didn’t even know what a MasterCard was !!! I lived my days never knowing or caring how “priceless” my 11-year days were. Back then it really didn’t matter; at eleven, it was about the “here and now.”
It was effortless. It was all I knew, my world was good and just maybe Saturday I’d get to spend my allowance on Star Wars, Close Encounters Of the 3rd kind, LaserBlast, Smokey and the Bandit, Oh God!, and what about Saturday Night Fever !!!
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You know you hear it everywhere and you here it over and over again… The “good old times” “back in the day” and “times sure were different.”
The real truth for me is closer to home. Times were not that different-
I WAS DIFFERENT.
And here’s a mind blower !!! Me and all the neighborhood kids, running wild, time of our lives…. The only rule …… be home when the street lights come on !!!! The freedom was a Joy we couldn’t understand at the time-
I tell you what- we didn’t NEED to understand it! At 11 years old WE LIVED IT.
Today I’m gonna live like I’m eleven !!!!
Can you?
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