Week 2 reading (Wilderness of Childhood)

From the very beginning of this reading I was simply enjoying it, which I think was the intent of the author. He used old-fashioned yet familiar descriptions of childhood that would make anyone feel good but also introduced his point through that childhood is a wilderness even in the normal everyday world. I like how he used the comic strip as a segue into the world of childhood in fiction too and then brought it back to reality just as gently with the fictional biographies. When he started talking about how someone really gets to know a city that just struck me as all too true because his description of overprotective childhood sounded sadly a lot like mine. After that all I could do was agree with him, simply because of the fact that my dad's childhood definitely had the wilderness as described at the beginning of the reading, and when he was my age he was completely on his own and fine. Yes I'm away at college not even in my own state, living on my own and not even homesick, but my parents helped me move in and out, they buy my plane tickets for breaks, and I still don't even know how to change a tire. One last note: It's easier to try new things on your own when you're a kid, there's fear but unless there's something really seriously dangerous going on there's also an underlying sense of having nothing to loose, even if it's subconscious. That's just what I think and I also think that adults shouldn't be so quick to forget that.