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Monday, May 9, 2011

To Be Eighteen Again

My son turns 18 at the end of the month. Amazing how time flies. I remember sitting down and helping him with math homework in elementary school. Now he wants an Emergency Medical Technician Course for his birthday. Basic math to EMT... overnite it seems.

When I was 18 I lived to game. If we were off for a week from school, we probably gamed each and every day. Dungeon Magazine was gold when it first came out, as I devoured adventures as a GM like they were going out of style.

Work? As little as possible. School? Grades came easy for me. College was a vehicle for more gaming, work was there to buy more gaming books.

I had little focus, no idea what I wanted to make of my life.

My son has found his focus. Grades may not come as easy for him as they did for me, but he's about 10 years ahead of me at that age. I didn't find my focus until my late 20's.

Can ya tell I'm proud? Of course, I still need to turn him into a gamer like his old man ;)

4 comments:

  1. Happy Almost Birthday and good job!

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  2. Congrats to your son and on your job on preparing him for life 101! At 18 I was pretty much in the same boat. Gaming preoccupied my thinking; all the other things were just demands that kept me from thinking about the game.

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  3. Thanks Whisk and Padre. He's stubborn like his mother was, so I plant seed and then hope they grow. If I push too hard he's like a wild bucking bronco ;)

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  4. Congrats on a job well done!

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