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OT: Spent some time in North Carolina...😳
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Your post reminds me of a lyric from an artist who was a bit of a social misfit as a child. A good number of successful people were in this boat to differing degrees. I wonder if there has been a study correlating success later in life for the young bullies. My personal anecdotal observation is that degree of success is quite low.
Anyway, here is the lyric from Henry Rollins.
"You never were one of them, they could have never been your friends;
The best revenge is to always survive yourself."
Are they out there playing pick-up sports games or swimming at a pool (public not private) or are they sitting somewhere staring at their phones? There has been difficulty keeping phones out of classrooms (with some parents protesting) so free time must be even more difficult.
My anecdotal observation is the same as yours. If nothing else, I have outlived several of the people of whom I have the worst memories.
As Chris Rock said.....wow, this is great fish, what kind is it? It's pork fish. :)
Local pools near me are generally packed throughout the week. Splash pads get crazy busy, too. Same for the skate park. Basketball courts are usually pretty loaded on weekends, and forget about finding a spot on some pickle ball courts.
I live in a suburban neighborhood with quiet street and a lot of kids. It's *very* rare that I see kids outdoors playing.
Some people outgrow being a bully. Some continue on and get worse in life. Just had a long conversation with a trusted colleague on this very same topic that one person in our volunteer organization life seems to be getting worse now that he is in in 50s. Without getting into specifics, we cannot just dump/run from the guy. We just find ways to work around him. Us leaving would make the situation work. More often than not, bullying stems from one or more of jealousy, insecurity or unhappiness. We work on highlighting his few positive attributes and around him. It's actually a useful and positive exercise.
It is a paradise for heart surgeons looking for patients (from someone in the medical community).
I'm sorry to hear that.
I live in a very outdoorsy area, and kids are out year round - on the trail, at the park, in the river, in the snow, etc etc. So are adults.
Don't think you're a parent of young children, but if you were, I'd suggest same as above: Encourage and/or make your children go outside. I suppose same could be said for grandchildren to the extent they're with the grandparent and/or their children value parenting advice.
My kids spend time outside evert day during the summer and most during the school year. Always have. And we make sure of it.
No idea why people here lament it as some kind of universal foregone conclusion that no kids are playing outside. Simply not correct.
I see a lot more younger people, and some teens on the trails in Sedona, AZ, but I RARELY see any teens or younger adults (20s) on the trails out in NJ.
I checked out of this thread for a while. What is the conclusion? Is everyone still fat in North Carolina or do kids still go outside and play to give us some hope?
TLDR summary- kids were seen running outside when they heard the ice cream truck.
Defeats the purpose. I suppose if they stick to that push-up orange sherbet thing, it's not too bad.
I could definitely see that, certainly more of a lifestyle out here. Which I think is what folks who want change should be paying attention to. How do you make it a lifestyle - scenic mountain, desert, beach .. communities have a leg up, but they also do a lot of work from there.
Sedona, which wasn't always an mtb hotspot, built itself into one of the country's premier mtb destinations. That's been a big thing for communities around UT the past few years, too - not necessarily the same scale as Sedona, but putting themselves on the map.
I think many communities around the country, including in NJ, have done some great things in that regard since my childhood. Kids sometimes just need a proverbial kick in the ass.
You left out sleeping in 90+degree heat and trying anything to cool off - fan facing out, fan facing in, flip the pillow, shirt on, shirt off.
My bedroom was basically the attic with no ac, which I shared with my brother.
On those nights, we would soak our heads and chests with cool water and argue ourselves to sleep over the angle of the cheap, inadequate, oscillating fan, demanding neither one of us enjoyed an second of life-giving, fan-blown air more than the other.
I had to look to make sure this wasn’t my brother posting 😊
