Monday, August 4, 2008

The Wisdom of Youth

As I was working in the kitchen on something I could hear my two younger sons (11 and 9) discussing the problem of a video game that was broken. A few months ago their Super Smash Bros. Brawl got scratched in such a way that it now no longer works, and I'm waiting for them to save up enough money to replace it.

So the younger one says "That was a really fun game, it's too bad it's broken." And the older one replies "Yeah, it's just like they say: 'You never know what you have until it's gone.'"

The discussion continued, but at this point I'm just trying not to laugh out loud. It's moments like these I wish I could wrap up and give back to them when they're grown and have kids of their own.

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