Dodging Traffic, Snakes, Gators, Eating Flies, Getting Home, and Other Perceptions on the World.

    I was an arcade kid. No other way to explain it.  I had a lot of crap going on when I was a kid, a teen ager.  Life was primarily spinning out of control, not sure why, other then I was a teen ager, and it kind of happens like that sometimes.  I do know where I felt happy, and free, as a kid though.  The local arcade. The beeps, laser sounds, and music, along with friends from school, and elsewhere, turned the arcade into a sanctuary,.
Today as I played Frogger, I thought about life, and why the thoughts that require you to do well at Frogger can also be applied to life. I too, pondered all the ways I have put to rest that angry, rebellious, self destructive kid of so many years ago.
       The last part is clear.  Today, I work hard, I try to be nice to people, I obey the law, I help others as much as I can, and I treat myself, as well as I treat everyone else. I have come to terms with all the things that drove that scared teen to do all the things I did.  I don't need to get into that here.  It's my story, and your story would be different, at least with regard to specifics.  The generalities are similar, and that is at the core of the human creative process. Reaching out and finding something someone else knows, because they have thought, felt and lived, something close to the thing you are dealing with.
     Now on to the fun part.  Frogger. A very rudimentary video game from 1982 or something like this.  A frog, crossing a busy highway, and a hazard laden stream, to go home, and be with the other frogs.  Simple.  Like life.  We all have obstacles in our way, on our path, every day.  We have semis wishing to run us over, we have fast sports cars that might not even see us, and we have drivers who go slow enough to be in tune with flow and chi of life. We have turtles to carry us when we need to be carried, logs to land on to help us float along, and we all have things that will consume us, if we are not diligent in  dodging them.

    The best part is, it's a FREE app!  No more scrounging for change...those coins are hard to come by when you're a kid....Peace