What one thing did you really want when you were a kid?
Teddy Ruxpin, I remember begging my parents to get this for me when I was just a little kid. I remember wanting it sooo bad, that it was the coolest thing ever. Needless to say i nver got one, and I forgot about having one a little while later. This is probably one of the more important time in my life, because this was the first THING that I can remember really wanting as a kid. There was something about it. It actually told you stories, albeit in a creepy animatronic way, but stories nonetheless. I never got it, and this was a good thing.
Throughout my life there was always that new thing that I really wanted, and I would beg my parents to get it for me, sometimes constantly for weeks. To their credit they didn’t cave in to my relentless annoyance, most of the time. I think they knew something about me before I was able to realize it. I like to be on the wave of the fad, whats cool and new and wonderful. Those few times where I actually got that THING I was ecstatic. I realized though that after a little while this THING was just ok. No one thing really changed my life as much as I had thought it would, and I’m pretty sure my parents knew that.
I am glad I learned this lesson early in my life, because now as I live my life simply and with as little stuff as I can.
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August 3rd, 2011 at 12:48 pm
From early on, you have always had an obsessive-compulsive streak. You never just wanted a skateboard; you had to have a top-of-the-line board with performance trucks, etc (I think I bought you a set of trucks from that place in Dayton with the standard “don’t ever tell your mother” caveat).. paintball gun, fire truck, Legos, bicycle, car, MacBook Pro, iPhone, soccer cleats (wet AND dry) goalie gloves, pottery wheel…. and we’re still negotiating the MacBook Air…
Wait a minute… this is never gonna end, is it?
August 3rd, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Wow, talk about a generation gap! My brother got a Teddy Ruxpin for his son!!!!!! When we were growing up there really wasn’t the “big toy” that everyone had to have. Of course, it’s different now, but you’re right. The bulk of it is very unnecessary!