revisting your childhood. Thread

Whats one thing from your childhood that helped shape your perspective and attitude on life? I grew up reading Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. One of the things I liked best about it was it's sense of imagination. It was about Calvin, and his stuffed tiger hobbes, who in his vision, was his best friend. It's sense of depth and seriousness at times, was beyond me, but I've since read them, and love them every bit as much as I do now. I think it helped me keep my imagination over the years, and realize that when life gets the best of you, you can imagine it in a whole new way, and imagine what it will be like tomorrow, then try and make the imagination a reality. Plus it was funny as all hell!

anyone else have something similar to that effect? not just comcs but something that was beyond there understanding when they were young, but when revisted takes on a whole new interpretation.

(edit: Scott here, checking that you can modidy the post!)

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I'd say it was going down to the beach every day when my dad was sailing a Hobie 15

hmmm well i am still kind of a child i guess. Yeah but anyway I think one thing that will shape my life is my guitar and listening to the guitar gods like SRV and Vai

Aye Steve Vai, the Beethoven he did was trui Awesome

I'm a satriani fan myself.

uhm, I can't really think of one event that shaped my life. I grew up with computers, joined quake modding with carni, and here I am today. I only recently as of last year became athletic because I decided if I was gonna be on computers a lot, I wasnted to be physically fit.

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I'd rather not go there .. :p

thing that most shaped my life?

well, it started with 5th grade, and becoming lazy
not doing work, failing tests, you know, bad marks on the report card

so the entire summer between 5th and 6th (no i didnt need summer school, im not that stupid) i was grounded because i made 1 f, gay gay gay. grounded from watching tv, nintendo, etc, standard stuff

so with all other forms of entertainment gone, WAM BIF SOCKO i discover books.
books are great ya know....really great

oh well, now i try to be as polite as possible, and less lazy.

books do indeed pwn

aye, books are a blessing to man so are authers

I think when i began exploring music more. Bands like radiohead have allowed me to look at things in so many perspectives and really relate it to my life. It's all pretty cool, music really can change your life. and i think when my brother left to japan, i was to take on all these responsibilties i wasn't capable of.

Moving from england to Australia when i was 7 hardly had a grounding in england then left everything i new and came here had to make new friends get used to different way of living and then changed schoold 4 times and moved house 5 or 6 times taught me to be flexible unfortunatly it also taught me never to hold onto friends coz they mite not be around for long such is life

MasterChopChop wrote: I think when i began exploring music more. Bands like radiohead have allowed me to look at things in so many perspectives and really relate it to my life. It's all pretty cool, music really can change your life. and i think when my brother left to japan, i was to take on all these responsibilties i wasn't capable of.

*tear*

Mine would be I guess when I moved from the Phillipines to Australia just 4 years ago. Really hard adjusting hear, cause I had to speak English and make entirely new friends AND adjust to Australian culture...

But now I'm pretty much satisfied cause I'm around people I love and care about, such are family and friends:)

The funny thing is that Games affected my childhood. games kept me away from drugs, and generaly the wrong crowed. they allowed me to look at life in a way that some only dream of while there stoned. so for all those against games and game violence. let it be known they saved one youth from turning to the otherside.

//me cries

I've had an XT in the early days, but I played my NES more though

Hurray for SMB3!

What shaped my childhood?

haha I'd have to say Counterstrike and Chicks

Id go with my family and games.

I have 2 sisters and a brother, my brother is well into computer games and led me into it.

Later on it was wrestling (i taped all the events and collected the figurines).

like wwe wrestling?

funny... but with me it have been dragons. it was then where i really learned how you interact with others in a peacefull way, how to you deal with troubles in a reasonable way, without agression. and the second one is a tv show, MacGyver. was another example where i learned how to deal with problems with your brain instead with brute force.
too many people just can't think outside their world and are not able to see what impact your action has on others. those two things helped me a lot there.

well ya don't say? Odd hobby..MAybe.....well it's yur life Have fun

hobby doesn't hit it... it's more a way of living our live... a peacefull and harmonical way.

If it's on TV, I watched David the Gnome.

And of course GI Joe too

Wow ... GI Joe .. now theres somthing I haven't seen in a real long time. I remember growing up with copius ammounts of them on a farm and no joke, I had about 300 of them, and I reakon I lost most of them to hammers, sandpits or some sort of firecracker.

ForK wrote: I had about 300 of them, and I reakon I lost most of them to hammers, sandpits or some sort of firecracker.

Remind me not to let you into my old collection you over-destructive bastard

Hey I was like .. 5-8 years old when I had them .. what do all little 5-8 year old boys do with GI Joes? They burn them, bash them, bury them. :p Its natural.