29!

Day 29 of the 30 Day Challenge:
Well, I'm making up my own post here. The whole purpose of this was to get me writing (something... anything...) every day. I recently came across the television show from the 80s called The Wonder Years. I'd never heard of it, nor had I ever seen any of it. But I started reading about it and it looks like a really cute show. Unfortunately, none of the seasons have been released on DVD, so I can't watch them anywhere. But I've found a bunch of quotes taken from the show over the course of its airing, and I really like them.

In your life you meet people, some you never think about again, some you wonder what happened to them, there are some that you wonder if they ever think about you and then there are some you wish you never had to think about again … but you do.

There was a time when the world was enormous, spanning the vast, almost infinite boundaries of your neighborhood – the place where you grew up, where you didn’t think twice about playing on someone else’s lawn … and the street was your territory that occasionally got invaded by a passing car. It was where you didn’t get called home until after it was dark. And all the people, and all the houses that surrounded you were as familiar as the things in your own room. And you knew they would never change.

I’m young, I live in a house my father owns, in a bed my father bought. Nothing is mine except my heart and my fears and my growing knowledge that not every road is gonna lead home anymore.

When you’re a little kid, you’re a little bit of everything: artist, scientist, athlete, scholar … sometimes it seems like growing up is the process of giving those things up one by one. I guess we all have one thing we regret giving up, one thing we really miss … that we gave up because we were too lazy or we couldn’t stick it out or because we were afraid.