As a Boy (or Girl), What Was Your Paradise?

[South Acren]

Ah the days of my childhood. A time of fights, the wii, and living in the country. My paradise was actually my parents farm. It was easy to find a quiet place to relax and not worry about ISS or detention.

[Erythrean Thebes]

Lol, what happened??

Someone messed with my chair so I threw them off theirs and then threw it at them.

And you didn't even seize power??

I did largely the same stuff in my free time as a smol Iffy as I do now. Except back then I did them because I enjoyed them, and now I do them because I don't know how to stop.

How do I stop posting, someone please help.

I've added more things, a greater variety. It's not as much about having a retreat anymore. Now it's a question of taste

I disagree. Kids care a lot about the spaces, mentally, where they can be at ease

I didn't.

Oh yeah, were you a wolf among boys, ah?

So, TL;DR: What was my childhood safe space?

I didn't have one, everything was either on fire or crowded with people when I was a kid. My childhood was still pretty cool.

during a war of some kind?

Ah the days of my childhood. A time of fights, the wii, and living in the country. My paradise was actually my parents farm. It was easy to find a quiet place to relax and not worry about ISS or detention.

This is so right

[Hiroko Marsden]

A warm beach without jellyfish

[San Alto]

The fields outside of my house were great. They were dominated by long grass and wildflowers, and punctuated by leaning wooden utility poles (or simply "telegraph poles" as we always called them) holding aloft their long, looping wires and rusting transformers. I remember them because they really were the only sign of human existence out there.
The fields led to well-worn towpaths beside the river, opening between the trees and brambles up towards a grey, overcast, late afternoon sky. The trees allowed through a light breeze. Every day it was quiet and after a while you could walk without having to think about where you were going, perfectly allowing me to reorder my thoughts after school and just enjoy the fresh air. By the time I got home the streetlamps would have started to bathe the roads in orange light, even in the late afternoon. With a grey sky, it was so overcast and just calm & quiet.
When I was even younger, the old pillboxes from the war, next to the river, made excellent "castles" and the sticks from the trees made just as good "swords" when I would play out with my brothers. Overall, I'd say that was my paradise.

[Purpelia]

Oh yeah, were you a wolf among boys, ah?

More like man among apes. But in general I was always more of a people than place person back than. As in the proper combination of people is what made me comfortable and not any particular piece of real estate.

[Bear Stearns]

The ballgame with my father, the rugby pitch with the lads, or skiing.

[United Muscovite Nations]

A stable, happy marriage. That's not Freudian or anything, my parents' marriage was a happy one.

[Free Arabian Nation]

-snip, can't format-

[Drexel Burnham Lambert]

Underwriting the debt for KKR's leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.

[Brightlake]

First choice may be in home, in my bedroom exactly but since I don't have any toys or gaming console it end up pretty bored. One enjoyable things may be go out with relatives to far out rural area (actually not really far like 2 - 2.5 hours drive from the city) passing food ratios for who are needy, giving stationary & school supplies to local community there, passing teaching materials to them eg. textbooks etc then in the middle of the day you have a lunch there even though the taste is actually not pleasant but its great experience; I maybe will take my kids someday to do same things and get the experience.

[Arctrucia]

Staying in my room with the aircon ramped up to High Cold while watching anime, Disney, Star Wars, and World War II documentaries.

[Asherahan]

Videos games has always been my go to paradise.

[Ethel mermania]

Underwriting the debt for KKR's leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.

When you went out of business, I picked up a couple of cheap PC's from the bankruptcy sale. They were not wiped clean.

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Ah the days of my childhood. A time of fights, the wii, and living in the country. My paradise was actually my parents farm. It was easy to find a quiet place to relax and not worry about ISS or detention.

Brings back some memories of days spent in ISS but I hid headphones under my hoodie and long hair so I got to listen to music all day.

[Hammer Britannia]

Ah the days of my childhood. A time of fights, the wii, and living in the country. My paradise was actually my parents farm. It was easy to find a quiet place to relax and not worry about ISS or detention.

Brings back some memories of days spent in ISS but I hid headphones under my hoodie and long hair so I got to listen to music all day.

I never even got detention when I was in school

Because I was too smart to get caught

[Cekoviu]

A warm beach without jellyfish

Wait, a beach without jellyfish? Are you sure that was your paradise??

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

When my family was asleep and I was playing Minecraft on a cool 2012 summer night.
Yeah, I know that I'm quoting a meme, but that was my ideal at the time.

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

Brings back some memories of days spent in ISS but I hid headphones under my hoodie and long hair so I got to listen to music all day.

I never even got detention when I was in school

Because I was too smart to get caught

I deliberately got ISS in elementary school because I hated the other students and wanted to do my work as far away from them as possible.

...And I sometimes wonder why I have no social skills today...

[Dungeon]

Lego. Just a big bin of them all thrown together that you could root through for hours in the basement.

Also, the woods behind my house. I can't imagine childhood without woods...I don't know how city kids did it

[Kavagrad]

Reading books. Alone.

Which I pretty much never do now; since the advent of the smartphone I've lost my attention span.

This hurts me, I keep buying books as if I still read them

[Evil Dictators Happyland]

Lego. Just a big bin of them all thrown together that you could root through for hours in the basement.

Also, the woods behind my house. I can't imagine childhood without woods...I don't know how city kids did it

I have a forest behind my house, but it was always so full of poison ivy, snakes, and the occasional rusted nail hidden in the leaves that I never could enjoy being there. But it's always beautiful to look at, especially when it rains heavily and the creek rises high.
Ahh, this thread is taking me back...

[Drexel Burnham Lambert]

Underwriting the debt for KKR's leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.

When you went out of business, I picked up a couple of cheap PC's from the bankruptcy sale. They were not wiped clean.

Stories. Tell.

[Xmara]

Ah the days of my childhood. A time of fights, the wii, and living in the country. My paradise was actually my parents farm. It was easy to find a quiet place to relax and not worry about ISS or detention.

Brings back some memories of days spent in ISS but I hid headphones under my hoodie and long hair so I got to listen to music all day.

Took me like 5 min to realize you all were referring to in school suspension and not the international space station

[Pope Joan]

We lived at the bottom of a big hill. On one side of it was a large dairy farm; we could sled and toboggan there in winter

On the other side was an Indian burial mound, complete with arrowheads. My friends big sister was an anthropologist and she had a dig there.]

Further up were deep hemlock woods, with a canyon and a stream, and animal trails. That was my real getaway. I would camp on a ledge 30 feet above the creek, and go fishing (and catch crayfish too)

Having friends along was great, but just being alone there was also good

[The North West Vice]

Where I lived as a kid, we used to have a little hill and then where it swooped down near my house, there was a big open field. Me and my girlfriend used to make out there until we got married and moved to my house. Now I'm expecting a daughter in about 8 months.