If you grew up playing outside, like most kids in our
generation did, then you most likely got some scrapes and bruises on your body.
A lot could have happened while playing or messing around with your friends.
You could have gotten a scratch on your knee, gotten a tooth knocked out, or
even possibly broken a bone. Now, I personally have gotten my fair share of
scratches and scrapes. I have lost one
tooth by getting it knocked out, but I have not broken a bone in my life up to
this point (I say/ type this as I am knocking on wood). But this is going to be
common among all of us. You can be playing around with your friends and accidentally
fall and snap your leg, and once you do this your leg will never be as strong
as it was for the rest of your life. It’s the same situation with your teeth. At a young age if you knock out a baby tooth,
that is fine because you have your permanents coming in still. But once that permanent
tooth gets knocked out you have only two options that I know of: get a fake tooth put in, or have a gap where
your tooth was. It is just crazy to me,
to think how you can do something at such a young age and not even have thought
twice about it, but it ends up being a part of you for the rest of your life.
For example, when I was in eighth grade it was a big thing for us dumb junior
high boys to give each other “eraser burns”. All it
was, was that you take an eraser and you rub it back and forth continuously on
a part of your body until the skin was almost raw. At the time it was the cool
thing to do, stupid, but cool. My burn is small compared to the size of what
some people were getting, yet I can still see it along with my other dumb burns
I have gotten. I often think to myself about scars and how long they will be
with you. Will I be sixty years old holding my grandchild looking at these
scars like they are a tattoo? Yes, most likely. But with these injuries and
scars comes lessons learned and great stories to be told. In our later years to
come, enjoy what life is going to offer you, but don’t take what you have for
granted. Just because we are older doesn’t mean we can’t still get scars.
