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Kids Outdoor Adrenaline Play

There are many moments I think of my childhood, and particularly the kind of intense play that was taking place outdoors that make me realise how risky and dangerous those moments were. There was definitely a great element of creativity involved as well as some attraction to anything forbidden or not conventional. The bigger the risk, the more the enjoyement we were getting out of our outdoor play.

The first one I can recall, which certainly was not very safe, was some sort of chasing each other around the town on a bicycle. There were two teams involved, the first one which had five minutes to cycle away as fast as possible, ans the second one which sould try to find the first one. Locating someone wan’t enough as that person would have to be taken out of the game by actually being caught!. The outcome was incredible chasing all around the neighborhood ignoring everything and everyone that would be on our way. It wasn’t unusual that someone was going to get slightly injured in one of our daily expeditions.

The most memorable one was a game we used to call ourselves ‘explorers’. We were entering abandoned private properties in order to come across some big discovery or secret that we wouldn’t share with any adult. Once we got into a massive dilapidated, rundown mansion that apparently was abandoned in the 70s and we were wondering in it for about three hours. There were moments we were actually thinking we where going to come across something big. Our biggest fear was whether there were any patrol dogs left to be running around but that encounter never took place.

Another time, we managed to get into that warehouse that was abandoned as the company who owned it went into liquidation. Wandering around we were able to find objects we had never seen before, nor could we imagine what they were made for. Most of those object were looking really weird and hostile as no one had ever come across things like pcb connectors, solenoids and waterproof connectors.

I definitely miss those times and I do not think that kids nowadays can experience so intense and high adrenaline emotions, sitting in the living room playing computer games all day.

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