Moving your own way

 

There is a tendency to say "but kids today are too soft, lacking grit" and possibly some are although it wasn't unknown in the past either but generally it's wrong to castigate all  and here we see one lad who clearly has the detirmination to make his move in life whatever his personal challenges are in much the same way I had to, all those years ago.

He's getting about, earning his badges and no doubt playing a full part in his Six as in truth as the late Tom Petty remarked we can't remain laying like a refugee left and abandoned expecting others to pick us up.

We have to do that for us and not be defined by what has happened but more by what we are making happen in our lives.

People have a part to play, a social responsiblity to help each other, movements such as Scouting can help a lot - and scouting was ahead of the game for a long time - to help those of us with disabilities but we have to help ourselves to go foward.

****Short news update****

In the unstable world of Tumblr where initially this blog started and many others just seem to go the blog "roverscoutandy" that specialized in continental specifically German speaking vintage scouting blog appears to have had its account terminated a few days ago.

While taking no pleasure from what has happened to him, it only goes to show that my decision  to back up to here and host images on blogger rather than using any direct from Tumblr was right as while I lost my account, at least I'm still standing making a unique Scouting related blog