Wow, was just talking about this with some of my softball buddies in the parking lot the other night. For me it's pretty simple. I remember being about that 11-13 year old stage and waking up that first morning after school was out for the summer. Realizing there is no school that day. It's that stage where you are not working part time yet and life is so simple. I'd get up and have some breakfast and walk over to my friend Scott's house and we'd play baseball all day. If we had practice we'd go to that for a couple of hours and then play baseball or wiffle ball all day long. Some nights we would have a game and obviously those nights were the best. If not we'd turn the lights on around the driveway and have the Cardinals game on the radio and play until it got too late and our parents dragged us in. The next day we'd do it all over again. All summer long. I grew up in a small town and we could ride our bikes to movies, games, etc. One summer my dad got me a tent and I pitched it in the back of our yard and basically lived in the thing all summer long. Sometimes my buddies and I would make a pact to meet at exactly 3am in front of my house on our bikes. We'd ride around town in the silence, only people out roaming around and we thought that was soooo cool! We'd ride in our small group through the middle of main street in the middle of the night and nobody would even know. We'd go back home and nobody ever even knew we were out. Needless to say, it was a much simpler time. I'd say it started to change when I kissed my first girl at skateland, Sallie Dawson. From that point on I had to deal with women in my life and nothing was ever quite the same, lol.