When You Were 10
When you were 10 years old, what were you dreaming about? What did you want to be? What consumed your thoughts?
For me, a few things:
1. I wanted to be able to do a cherry picker on a bmx bike.
2. I wanted to beat Seminole in elementary football.
3. I wanted to marry Robyn Repass when we both turned 18.
4. I wanted to fly in an airplane for the first time.
5. I wanted to get over 100K points on Pitfall on Atari. Remember you had to send a picture in of the TV screen showing your point total to become part of the Pitfall Club.
6. I wanted to go on long vacation road trips with my family in our brown pimped out customized Scooby Doo like Van. Complete with the paneling on the walls and a refrigerator. I’m not kidding! BAM!
7. I wanted our high school football team to win the State Championship because my dad coached and I knew all the players. We made it to the state finals that year.
8. I wanted to someday be as cool as Ricky Shroder on Silver Spoons. In the meantime I would just dress like him and have my hair cut like him.
9. I wanted to not be scared of storms. I was petrified of storms- if there were storm clouds in the sky, I would freak. It was horrible. True story.
10. I wanted to be a weatherman. So I could know exactly what was going on with storms and tornadoes. Just like Don Woods. The most famous weatherman ever in Tulsa, OK.
11. I wanted the Cold War between the US and Russia to end. There always seemed to be the threat of Russia invading, just like they did in the movie Red Dawn.
12. I wanted to win the 4th grade free throw shooting contest and the 4th grade spelling bee. Which I did. Proving my well-roundedness…..
The simplicity of being 10…..How about you?
i wanted to dig out, build and live in my own underground house (the hole i started to dig is still there)
i wanted to run away from home. all I needed was the motor off of dad’s rototiller to make a go-cart.
i wanted to be the tree trimming guy that climbed trees all day.
that whole “you’ll shoot your eye out” thing…yeah, well, I almost shot a hole through my ear with my daisy bb gun
At 10 years old the only thing I was dreaming about was my father-
I lost him in a car accident by my house at the age of 10…
Dreaming wasnt something that I was into at the time- I just had alot of questions without any response.
However, thats when Jesus saved my soul and later snatched my out of the mundane life I was in and put me to work in His church!
10years old was a ruff year but it change the course of history for me and the people that I have influenced for Jesus!
When I was 10 I wanted to grow facial hair.
I wanted to become a professional athlete.
I wanted to run as fast as the Six Million Dollar Man.
I wanted to be cool like Fonzie and ride a motorcycle.
I wanted to learn to “rock the baby” with a yoyo.
I wanted to marry Maria from Sesame Street.
I’m happy with my facial hair!
Didn’t Don Woods use to do those stickmen-type drawings during his weather forecast?
As a Northeastern Okie, you’ve just flooded back some memories to me!
yes! Nice call Jonathan. I loved those stickmen drawings. I kept trying to win one. but no luck.