But, Is The The Best Time To Live...?

 A few weeks ago I posted a picture of the huge inflatable someone set up in our neighborhood. We're assuming it was for a birthday party or some other family gathering. Not everyone has an inflatable of this size to just put up whenever they want to. I used the picture for my Pic Of The Day with the caption of me being born in the wrong century.

It was funny, but was it true?

I was born in the mid-twentieth century. We're now in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. When I posted my statement with the picture, some agreed (based solely on the one picture...), but others brought up good points. They wrote about things they did as a kid that kids no longer do. Is a huge inflatable the best thing for kids? I admit, I was spoiled. I grew up next to an amusement park complete with an amazing swimming pool. We had a mountain in our backyard, and we lacked the distractions of video games and personal computers.

I guess the picture made me and others think of what life was like as a kid. I'll put up my childhood with anyone's. As long as my bicycle had air in the tires, I was mobile. I could ride with my friends, go to the pool, or even bike to the next town over. 

No, we didn't have huge inflatables where you could climb higher than the roof of your house, but we had a lot of fun. Maybe I was born in the wrong century, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.