| Comment | No mate, you weren't. I am sure it seemed that way at the time but you still had a lot of development and growing up left to do. Lord knows I felt that way too when I was a kid but I was dead wrong. Growing up and being able to look back on that stuff and acknowledge you were just a dumb kid who didn't know anything is part of maturing.
As to why that lifestyle is disappearing? Well Glasgow has developed a lot since then, the definitions of what is OK for kids to be doing and the values of the community have evolved. These wee guys have more structure and more choices now than they did even 10 years ago and even if they aren't coming from great circumstances at home. Obviously still got a ways to go but the way things are going is definitely for the better. If you look back on it I think you will find it wasn't the punch ups and drinking that really made that time in your life special it was your friends and figuring stuff out together. That can and does still happen without all the other unhealthy and anti-social things. We're doing better by our kids these days for sure. |
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