Psychology

» pink101 - Sounds Great To Me.

In response to Sounds Great To Me. posted by LauriePK:
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I hear that.
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I spent half of my childhood up to age 14 in a rural community living with my grandparents.
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They were retired and my grandfather built a cottage at a lake next to a religious facility that was a summer campground for a state wide denomination of churches. He had a small truck farm and raised chickens. We were the only ones on that side of the lake in the fall, winter and spring. It was about a mile and a half to a country school where I attended with farm children. I spent half my time there and the other half with my family in a city of 100,000 people.
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You are absolutely correct about everyone knowing about you and your business. Other than reading Zane Grey and Edgar Rice Burroughs, knowing what the farmer was doing a mile down the road was it. We went to a small town for our needs on Saturday afternoon when everyone else was in a small town of probably two or three thousand at the very most.
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I was able to roam the country side through the woods, all around the lake in my little 8' row boat, and explore the fields where the Native Americans had live a hundred and fifty years earlier.
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And, yup, there was something great about getting back to the city with my own parents the other half of the year. If I had to choose, I would take the rural life in the blink of an eye.
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Once on my way home from school when I was about seven years old, I found a kite unattended but tied to a fence down the road a piece from a farm house. Apparently someone tied it there for whomever might want it. I untied it and took it home with me. When I got home, my grandmother already knew about the kite. I had to walk the mile back to tie it back to the fence. It belonged to the kid who lived in that farm house. You couldn't get away with anything.
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-- posted by pink101