now that you're grown Options

[brooklyneast05]

do you ever revisit one of your old hobbies and find that it's way easier for you now that you're older and get pissed that it was so much harder back when you actually cared about it?


i don't really know how to explain what i'm talking about or if this applies to very many things, but i think it applies well to sports. an example that made me think about this was riding bikes. i used to be into riding bikes in a tricky sort of way for a while when i was like 15 or 16ish. my friends and i wanted to ride flat land and do all the wheelie tricks and shit like that. it was really hard though because back then i was a shrimp. looking back comparing my weight, strength, and height to the size of the bike, i think it might have been physically impossible for me to do what i was trying to do in the first place. this afternoon though i got on my cousins trick bike and was messing around for the hell of it and everything was so much easier now that i'm grown up and strong enough to actually move the bike how it has to be moved to do the tricks. it just sucks because if i had had this ability back when i actually spent hours practicing this stuff i would actually have been good i think.


another example, is the fact that i cared about dunking way more when i wasn't able to dunk. i spent forever in the gym jumping around trying to dunk and spending a ridiculous amount of time trying to increase my vertical. then when this craze had somewhat worn off i hit a growth spurt and all the sudden dunking was possible. then i could dunk but i no longer cared about it to the same extent so it wasn't really as fun as it would have been if i had been able to do it before.


i duno i'm just rambling. i was just thinking how it's too bad there's so much stuff that i cared about way more when i was at a physical disadvantage than i do now that i'm grown up.

[sixfive]

damn jc, im trying to be able to dunk now, but im white :(