• secretlife said on Feb 09, 2008....

  i used to love to play that i was ship-wrecked on a desert island as a child.
  ahh the hours of fun play that was...imaginations gone wild.
   
  i have a weakness for adventure. 
  perhaps because the vast majority of my life has been played by the book-
  in any case, every so often, when i feel i can't stand the predictability another moment, i'll do something completely out of character.  something crazy.
   
  been a while since i've done anything like that-  maybe i'm overdue.
   
   

• moonriver said on Feb 09, 2008....

  i think you know how i'll answer this one... ;-)
  
  yup, i often played imaginary adventures by myself as a kid, usually as an indian fighting cowboys -- in our backyard or a nearby riverside park, or in the boys' room with blanket as teepee during rainy weather.
  
  i often give in to such temptations until now. my problem is that i hesitate a lot, and by the time i make a decision to jump right in, the temptation has run away with a more decisive man LOLOL. there, i've said it. hesitate is a milder version of procrastinate.
  
  

• dailyachesandpains said on Feb 09, 2008....

  Ginger, this got me thinking of what Little D will "pretend" play about!  I always wonder what's on her mind when she's quietly playing.  I'd interrupt and ask her, but I don't want to ruin that moment of watching her imagination working!
   
  Great post! 
  Daily

• lfbno7 said on Feb 09, 2008....

  I haven't done anything adventurous in a while. When I was younger I took a lot of LSD and other drugs. That was an adventure. Years ago I fell in love online. That was an adventure.

• skald said on Feb 09, 2008....

  I do have some of it in me still and yes of course you are a regular Robinson Crusoe. That figures. 

• Lucytorial said on Feb 09, 2008....

  This is a cool post, Ginger I never stopped being a carusoe.... I grew up a tomboy in the aussie bush, forever out and about in streams, up tree's catching things, poking things, playing games getting dirty.... my last adventurous event???
  
  Swimming in our damn, getting completely mud encrusted (letting it dry) and making out I am a mud monster... at the delight and hysterics of my husband and dog! I think I did this for a good hour... before I realised I couldn't make an expression with my face...
  

• gingersoul said on Feb 10, 2008....

  Secret....so you too were feeling the attraction of a deserted island......it doesn't surprise me...:-)

  Would you like to tell me what you did when you were in a "crazy" mood? And, btw, yes, definetely is overdue...{hug}

  Moon.....well, you are talking to Miss Procrastination so i completely understand the meaning of hesitating...is a sublte version of my problem....as much as i am a procrastinator i am also an impatient cookie.....strange combination, i agree....but i know how to be patient with something is close to my heart.......

  I can imagine you playing at indians and cowboys....and i bet you were not playing John Wayne...lol..

• gingersoul said on Feb 10, 2008....

  Daily...oh yes...i did the same thing when daughter was little.....i would stop and try to imagine where she could ever be in her imagination land....i am doing it even now..

  I see her daydreaming and i wonder..."What is she thinking ? What is she dreaming?'...We parents never stop to worry about our kids......not even when they play.....

  LF....i read your post but i didn't comment...i have to come back..its a painful post, my friend...

  And you are right...that has been a great adventure..usually the adventures of the heart are the most daring. 

• gingersoul said on Feb 10, 2008....

  Skald...i had no doubt you could be still an adventorous schild.....the way you look at your life is the way a Crusoe would do.....you still are able to marvel about your land, your loved ones, your life....:-)

  Lucy....that was fun ....lol........i used to get all muddy too when i was younger ....in Italy close to my city there was a pond famous for its thermal and terapeutical mud....

  Way before they built a modern spa out of it  if we used to sneak in at nigth...during the summer...and just covered up our bodies with that mud until it would turn white from grey....we used to have mud fights, mud massages, mud loving making.....you name it....lol...then we would clean ourself in the nearby sulphur pool....stinky business but lots of fun.....ahh...fond memories....:-)

• lfbno7 said on Feb 10, 2008....

  Ginger, I didn't say here that falling in love online was painful. But yes it was.

• gingersoul said on Feb 10, 2008....

  Lenny...i told you i have read that post but didn't comment yet...and the tone of it was one for a painful experience...

• lioneljay said on Feb 10, 2008....

  Ginger, it's sad but I bet that the vast majority of youngsters today wouldn't have a clue who Robinson Crusoe was.
  
  I still like playing shipwrecked, except that now I like to play it in hotel rooms.
  

• gingersoul said on Feb 10, 2008....

  LJ....damn if you are right.....i asked my daughter...she is in Leap reading ...i mean..the top of the top....and she said "Uh? Crusoe who?"

  I felt so old......lol....

  And.......in those hotel rooms......do you wear an one-eye patch too?

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