The blog started out on Tumblr during a period of issues on that site we need not go that much into but it's enough to say I felt a separate new Tumblr with a narrower focus than one that with having those issues was needed.
For me one simple and painful issue from the past remains, how it was something I wanted to join and be a part of that had every potential to transform my life was effectively blocked not by that organization but by parental attitudes so it was unlike even my own siblings I was never invested into Scouting at ANY level
I had written a few bits on That Uniformed Schoolboy about this in the past so don't wish to go over old ground but one of things is while it is perfectly true to say we can't go back to 1972 and put that right I need not stay holding that sense of lost opportunity.
I'm sure any Akela would say to me now it makes more sense to do something about it positively and that is what I'm doing obviously not by being a member of a Cub Scout pack as much as a pack for developmentally developed disabled adults who are very much boys might well be a good thing but by following more what I'd of done then as a Pack Member.
That as time would of gone on is what you do as a Scout, a Venture Scout and so on as you move on but still in that Family doing more things involving personal planning, initiative and responsibility even if I didn't make first base.
So that's more what I am doing using the resources around me to fill in the gaps that weren't covered through other opportunities through school based activities such as orienteering and hiking or those areas where I did develop the skills to had been awarded badges for in the wider community
Over and out, Chris
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