ok i will play,i didnt know a 2x4 board was really not 2x4,and im 56 years old!! i guess you figured out im not a carpenter!!

I was oblivious to the fact that not everyone lived life as we did in the small Quaker college town I grew up in in Pa.

when I lived away from home for the first time as a college freshman - I had a lot of acclimating to do

I remember going to a senior prom in the next town over with a boy I met through a club, and I was totally in culture shock - the girls were so different than in my school - in small superficial ways - but as a young girl it seemed pretty significant

I never saw a Church till I was 13,,and went with a girlfriend,,
We never discussed God or the Bible in my house..
But yet my earliest memory was crying and asking God to take my Father, when I was about 4 or 5 years old?

Truly I GUESS,,mine would be,,
HOW TO ACT,,in a normal home where children were treated well, and loved,,,I had no real concept of HOW TO ACT,,when in one or around one,,and everyone sitting down for a meal BLEW ME AWAY..
as did,,hugging a brother or sister,,or,,a parent..

YOU GET MY TOP VOTE IN THIS DISCUSSION!

Some of what I have learned is that what my family taught me was way off from reality due to what they had been taught. It has appeared that traditions and passed down teachings in families can be detrimental to a well rounded mind and spirit. I learned that an open mind is extremely hard to find. I have learned that humans are strange and interesting creatures for the most part. I have learned that men have thought much too much of themselves since they started to articulate. The belief they are the center of the universe shows an awful big head.

I also learned that you have to laugh at it all because laughter is the one of the keys to a good life.

I also learned that I still have so much to learn that I will die learning.

I feel I don't know anything.

It can be frustrating

I actually didn't know how to pay bills when I moved away from home. It wasn't about budgeting - I literally didn't know HOW to pay them. It's funny to me now.
I didn't know how little I knew when I thought I knew it all.

I grew up in the inner city.

Having a wide variety of friends, I grew up oblivious to Racism. It was'nt until my high school years did I start to realize it. My friends were being treated vastly different than I (very badly) in society, police, businesses etc. and they began restenting me because of the color of my skin.

Shortly after my sixteenth birthday I met racism up front and personal in the form of a 20 man beatdown inside of a northern Wisconsin Job Corps dorm in which I was the only white boy. It was'nt that they hated me, they hated what I was. I could see the hatred for my color in their eyes. The wind was knocked out of me on the first punch so I did'nt feel the rest of the beating.

When they were done, I caught my breath and got to my feet. I asked them all 'Are we done?', grabbed my bag and walked out the door. I hoped that not fighting back would help end the cycle of race hate at least for a few people.

Sorry so long, but it was a story afterall.

...the more I realize I still have SO much to learn...

I grew up in the bush..
I sint know that people got divorced, that marraige wasnt forever.
that crime things and stuff where real.
That people really would hurt you.
That, not everyone was happy to be a part of you life.
That people all over the world, wherent always friends with their neighbors.

I had never cooked, or cleaned, but i could work a farm, drive a truck , tractor or bike, shoot a gun and skin a kangaroo.
But for some reason those things didnt help me much in life.

Yep life definately shocked me and still does.

thats awful, so sorry that happened to you and so happy you came away with your life intact...

Orgasims. I didn't have one until I was 36 yrs. old. True story.

Holy mother of GOD!!!!

I found my first porn drawer at age 8 or 9....shortly thereafter followed by a bare minimum of two orgasms per day....I am NOT kidding.

Jesus!



Truth be told...the older and smarter I get....the harder it will be to catch me doing something wrong.

I put my money on experience and treachery over youth and enthusiasim anyday.

I have learned that no matter how old I get as long as I keep my mind open there is always new things I will learn along the way........

Too bad you don't apply that same concept to showing me your boobs.

Hell already told ya you should have asked about 20 years ago when they were still looking up

So?

Stand on your hands....problem solved.

What's your next lame excuse for not whipping those bad girls out for me?

:)