# My youth
- Pretend fires
- The trampoline
- Swimming
- Soccer
- My grandma and grandpa
- Santa's village.
- Sports world
- stomach aches
- Murphy
- Fire crackers
- Cap guns
- Boots
- Mini sticks
- Nerf guns
- Nintendo
- Mario
- Mortal Kombat
- Golden eye
- Pop cans on the road
- Beckers
- Grounder
- Pokemon
- Starcraft and TCP/IP
- Paintball slingshot
- Diablo
- Risk
- Swedish ice tea
- The blackout
- Amped and the Xbox
- Delivering papers
- Reffing soccer
- Night shift at Tim Hortons
- Night shift at Zerhs
- Evening shift at Short Stop
- Summer job at the computer shop
- Bagel fights
- Fires
- A lot of fighting
- tip toeing
- soap in the mouth
- asthma attacks
- [[trauma]]tic stuff
- scary times
- that mirror
- Leaving home.
- All this was pre-17. I don't know where to draw the line for my youth, the older I get the more I consider my youth and in many ways I think I'm still in it.
## Related
- [[it is never too late to have had a happy childhood]]
- [[nostalgia]]
- [[narrative]]
- [[what I was into as a child]]