Get out and enjoy life!

People sit on the couch watching the world on electronic pixels in a box and find themselves revolving their entire life around that damned box. Who is going to remember watching TV five, ten, twenty years from now? Get out in the world, drag your kids and get an adventure. Go out to a park, visit a wilderness area, a museum! I take my little girl, and on occasion my wife, out to a near by lake and hit the woods, walk along the shore and enjoy nature. Don't except excuses from yourself any more than you would others. Most adventures are free, and once you get the gear needed for certain adventures, the costs are just gas and food.

I will remember showing my little girl the difference between a buck's track and a doe's track. I won't remember watching TV with her. Will she? I remember going out on nature hikes with my dad and marking points of interest for later use, I don't remember watching football on TV with him. I remember fishing on a boat in the middle of the night with Uncle David and Jim, not what was on the computer before we left. Would you? Will your kids? There is a reason Americans are viewed as fat and lazy, we are and we need to get out of our house. Given that my child has autism, I don't know what she will remember, I just know that she enjoys looking at flowers, fish and throwing rocks into the lake. And I enjoy watching her do that. I love having her with me.

Get out and enjoy life the best you can. Don't be afraid of screwing up or the big bad wolf. Just go somewhere and make it memorable!