Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 11:33:10 +0100
From: Andy Smith <andy@bobstar.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: LRO: Re: Re: The Land-Rover Bodied Bastard
>Just a thought and if somebody else has said I apologies now.
Did Marin hate himself when he was young ?, those years must of been
Tortuous for him..................
No, I was too busy riding horses, working on ranches, riding around
the California and Colorado mountains in the summer in Jeeps (with Chevy V-8
engines, no less), sailing, deep-sea fishing, learning how to fly, and doing about a zillion
other things. I didn't have a television until I was 16, so I actually had
to DO interesting stuff to entertain myself. One of the things I love about
both television and the internet is that as more and more people remain in
their homes experiencing life on a screen, there are less and less people
crowding up the real world. So I'm sorry to disappoint, but no, I didn't
hate myself when I was young. I had a great time, same as I am now. My
lack of interest in today's youth in not due to my own experiences, but to
my observations that today's youth for the most part are not worth wasting
time on. At least not my time. There are exceptions, but they seem to be
few and far between. But my opinions are not the result of having a bad time
as a kid. In fact, I feel sorry for most of today's youth because they seem
to have no direction and no opportunities to do the kinds of things I was able
to do when I was a kid. I make a fair amount of money, have a boat, a plane,
and can pretty much travel anywhere in the world whenever I want. I attribute
those benefits in large part to the experiences I had as a kid. Hauling logs
out of the woods with a Caterpillar tractor when you're 14 teaches you something
you don't get in front of a TV screen. You can say that hauling logs out of the
woods isn't a skill today's kids are going to need, but I'm not talking about the
skill itself, but the values- discipline, responsibility, and self-reliance- you gain
from doing things like that.
___________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle
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