I want to be able to run, play, jump, and abound with the youthful energy that I still feel running through me (most days anyway)

However, I’m starting to realize that just because I used to do something, doesn’t mean I still can.

This past weekend, I went toboganning, which is something that I do every winter and I don’t plan on giving it up.

Anyway, I was taking some kids to the hill and we had three sleds. The kids both had a brand new plastic saucer and I had a long plastic sled that could easily hold all three of us.

I hadn’t seen those saucer type sleds since I was young. I really wanted to relive the old glory days where I would run full speed, dive onto the saucer, and spin myself crazy fast down the hill.

So I borrowed the green saucer and gave it my best shot. I dived onto it and sure enough I broke it on my very first ride.

When I got to the top of the hill with the cracked sled in my hand, one of the kids I was with read the label to me. “It says no diving right on it,” she said. And then she chastised me by adding, “You’ve should’ve read that first.”

The sad thing is that I had read it beforehand. I just chose to ignore it. I wanted to zoom down the hill and in the process relive some of my great childhood memories.

When I got home I posted a message on Twitter about how I had broke the sled on the very first ride. This was the reply I got from Alexis, “You’re not a kid anymore, Chase…”

It’s sad but true. I’m not a kid anymore. No more diving onto saucer sleds for me. I guess I’ll stick to the old long toboggans. That’s not so bad though, I guess.

It’s a long winter here and it would be even longer if I weren’t able to toboggan every now and then. I’m just going to have to remember that I can’t justify doing things just because I used to. I am getting older after all (so sad!)