Childhood adventures are healthy and can form a good grounding for adulthood, ones ability to adapt to changing situations and have the courage to step out of ones comfort zone. I guess that's what those formative years are about.
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I guess that you are totally correct lol.
Sadly nowadays children only seem to have IT adventures.
Everyone is glued to their phones!
I grew up before all of that started and feel fortunate for that. Kids these days are different, mostly. It's not as safe for them in public spaces I suppose, but most don't want to be out there anyway. I wonder where it goes from here.
No idea where it goes from here as everything is upside down nowadays.
I already have a hard time keeping up with all the changes and the kids accept it as natural. 20 years from now this world will be a very strange place.
I often say the same thing regarding the world in twenty years. It seems to move so fast. I remember back to my earlier days and how simple life seemed. Maybe it wasn't so simple for my parents at the time however certainly far more simple than it is now. I yearn for those days now, the simplicity of less traffic on the roads, the greengrocer who packed my things in brown paper bags, the lack of big yellow's M's on every corner and when people had respect and courtesy. Is it too much to ask? Alas, it is a pipe dream because those days are long gone and will never return. The world is wondrous for sure, however it is also fast becoming untenable in my opinion.
Gone forever I am afraid and the way things are going with this new throw-away lifestyle things can only go one way.
We were delighted to hear today that China has taken the name of Pangolins off their traditional medicines list. Now they might stand a chance to get off the endangered list. Between corruption and poaching, the African continent is gradually being stripped of all of her treasures.
Once top producing farms are laying fallow and hunger can be be found everywhere. Things are really turning into a madhouse over here!
Africa, the cradle of the world some would argue, has always been used as a supermarket of sorts it seems. Poaching for animals, diamonds, people...How much more can a country give before it breaks.
There is no place in the world for human beings to cite pangolin toe nails as a cure for anything...traditional herbal medicines made from animals that don't even come from China? Sounds like an excuse to me. And yet, there is a healthy trade in wildlife stolen from other countries to feed the hubris and greed of others. When a meerkat, pangolin, koala bear, Australian parakeet and blue tinged lizard reside in a Wuhan wet market side by side with an assortment of animals from all over the world one has to wonder about the merits of traditional medicine. It is naive and foolish to think it has anything to do with medicine.
Enough said.
And yet there are those that swear by it my friend.
One would think that it could only be illiterate classes that would consume and medicate with the stuff, but not so. Served up as delicacies for the upper classes and in many cases boiled alive in front of them to prove the freshness.
Guys are fearful of their performances in the bedroom, so innocent Rhino's are poached for their horns. Compacted hair that they think are a form of Viagra.
Until the day that there are no more Rhinos, then all of these insecure little twats will become divorced. Apologies for my language, but I think that you know how I feel about this senseless slaughter. Even the Giraffes are now being attacked and Elephants are being poisoned at their drinking holes. It is a slaughter out there and the poor are desperate for the money that the slaughter brings in. In the meantime they receive a pittance and the middlemen skim the cream off the top.
Hundreds of poachers have been arrested here, but they are only small fry. To kill a snake you start with it's head, but if the head is connected to the forces that be and even to some unscrupulous persons in government, then it is a losing battle and the slaughter will continue. A recent study concluded that the main export point in Africa is Nigeria.
What more can I say as the containers filled with animals and stolen metal happily leaves the country. Nothing is safe here anymore!