Monday, June 17, 2019

Ah!---little-boys!...Reckon! That would be...ME!

Hero!
 
I happened to catch the tail-end of an old movie today.
Stand-by-me! Is a tale of pre-teen youth growing-up.
 
When I find myself regaling our progeny with exploits
from my adventurous-time and space, (seems I do that
“reminiscing” more and more often here-of-late) most of
The “tales” put my age at about “12”; not sure why that is.
Certainly, some events occurred at that time-o-life for me.
but, a great-deal of my time turned into extra-ordinary “fun”.
(Occasionally, real-damages resulted; fortunately---mostly…fun!)
 
In the movie, four-friends go on a quest to find the dead-body
of a teen from their small Oregon-town who was killed by a train.
The story is amusing and entertaining---and…bittersweet. 
 
Lovely-Lady Candice-Leah smiled and laughed at the antics in
the film, being-polite, finding “humor” in my reaction to the tale.
 
I picked up on her “motherly”-understanding of an overgrown-
septuagenarian who tends to live in some fantasy-mental state.
She was not unkind in her assessment---just…amused. Hmm!
 
I tried to explain my sympathetic-reaction to the movie-boys’
take on the predicaments unfolding in their young-lives suggesting
to Lady-Candice that an understanding of the emotions and
importance of the events to the actors might be better accepted
if she had experienced “life” as a pre-teen male. She just smiled!
 
One of the boys in the movie grows up to be a “writer”. At the end
of the film, he is writing the tale of their super-adventure. Wow!
The last line of his “book” goes something like this: I never had
friends in life like I had when I was twelve. Nobody does! Amen!
 
Maybe my reaction is akin to what I hear people speak of with a
certain lamented sense-of-loss when they speak of a “1st-love”!
 
Reckon “youth” was, indeed, my 1st-love!---and…I do miss it!
 
Still---this demented-mind…seems to forever eschew “adulthood”!
 
Maybe---I can’t to-back…Or---maybe…I chose just to never-leave!
 
Little-boys need a “hero”---me, still…mine are: Life! & Love!
 
Oh!---Did I ever tell you about the time...when I was 12...?
Amen!


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