They seemed so witty and relevant earlier in the day, although others were political and so the ponigent irony of those left one to just shake their head in disbelief.
How bout our society... something insane happens, people get there knickers in a knot and say to themselves I'm going to go home and blog about this... yep this is me sitting at my computer spewing my vile out into my irrelevant until popularized web presence. Actually it's worse than that, blogs are too long, you just need an update now... and a minor understanding of the issue to fit in and not "miss" anything that is going on.
I was at the playground today and there was a double slide and the kids were climbing up the slide and sliding down and crashing into each other having a blast. I tried to mention that perhaps one of the slides could be a "going up slide" and the other could be a "going down slide" which really got one of the grandmothers going. It was the old school "slides are for going down" so go down them and stay out of the way lest somebody get hurt. As a parent of 3 kids it is important to know when you are set to win and when you are set to lose, so i just fucked off to a distant part of the park and felt the great sunny day and let other people argue about what a playground piece of equipment should be used for in terms of regimentated play. From a distance i watched the kids go up the slide and they were using their arms and their legs and their abdominal core strength to get up the slide... i myself was feeling a little soft on the core strength and thought perhaps i could use a little "slide walking up"... the kids would pobably dig it, but there is that matter of what the other "adults" that are too old to play would think.
The other day on of the twins (3 years old) went off the high diving board with a life jacket on.. i was in the water and she had a blast... i was then warned by the lifeguard that you are not allowed to go off the high diving board with a life jacket on. I told him they better open the small diving board then or face the wrath of Hailie... they did and then her sister (Emily) went off the small diving board for the first time. She was scared so she sat down at the end and rolled off.. grand times... then i was warned that rules stipulate you need to go off feet first not bum first.
2 big firsts in their life and both are in direct violation of the rules... the rules for safety.
The rules are there so you won't hurt yourself, i am told, but is not hurting yourself part of the process of understanding the world we live in. Isn't the point to hurt yourself on the small diving board so that you remember what no to to on the higher diving board where the hurt will be greater. What is HURT? You get hurt in life all the time and your legacy will be how you quickly you get over that hurt and back on task.
Everybody has to drive their kid to school because it's not safe to do otherwise, but yet the greatest chance of serious injury is in a car crash.
We are fucked, we do know that right.
