A Walk In The Park

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

How cool would it be to wander around the country with no worries, no worries at all?

I think that it would be cool, but then I realized that it might not be as good as I imagine it would be. Why? So glad you asked.

• Sore feet
• Smelly feet
• Smelly, pretty much, everything
• Wild animals
• Tame animals with an attitude
• Wild animals that trick you into thinking that they are tame, only to rip your leg off at a moments notice
• Wild animals driving motor vehicles that think it would be fun to knock someone, minding their own business, walking around the country on their buttocks
• Eating bugs
• Eating wild animals, especially those that have an attitude
• No showers, see number two and three above
• No warm bed to sleep in
• No cold bed to sleep in
• No Plurk
• No Facebook
• No blog (no way!)

I could go on, but I see that your lids are drooping, so I will leave you with some words of wisdom (not mine, of course) ...

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ~ Randall Jarell