I noticed when I was a kid that adults seem to forget that everything is real, no matter how young you are. A seven year old doesn’t feel like a helpless infant, they feel the oldest and most mature they’ve ever felt. And they will when they turn eight, too. And nine. Twenty. Thirty. Fifty.
You never feel as young as you are, because you’re always the oldest you’ve been. You can only look back and equate childhood with ignorance and silliness, because there were things you didn’t know then. But there are things you don’t know now, too, that someone older is looking down at you for.
I promised myself I would never forget that, growing up. I put it in a time capsule when I was nine because I wanted to be certain. And sometimes it slips away, and I catch myself scoffing at people younger than me, but you have to fight that. You have to hold on. You have to keep a little bit of your younger mind inside you, so you don’t forget.
I think that’s important.
Remember that you’ll always change, but know that the person you’ll become isn’t going to be any more real than the person you are, or the person you were. They’re still going to feel like You.
What kills me about Mccree is that. Overwatch is a game where the writers used both ‘time travel’ and ‘characters getting frozen to be discovered later on’ as plot devices for various characters, and yet they did not use either of those things on Mccree. He’s not a real cowboy taken somehow into 2060. He’s just a normal guy, the same age as his teammates, who just dresses and talks like a cowboy in the year 2060,because he wants to. There are so many convoluted justifications for the other characters, but not Jesse. He’s just like that. He just is. The belt buckle. “I’m your Huckleberry”. All decisions made by a 37 year old man of his own free will. I hate him.
First trip out. This is a baby Phidippus Regius, just after leaving the sac in search of food, for the first time in it’s life. I took a few of the babies, and gave them some heat and light and let them roam around and accomplish their first few jumps. This is one experiencing its’ first taste of freedom. Barely a speck, these shots are in the 5x life size range.
