I'm talking about the fact that things change. sometimes things change that i thought were just fine the way that they were. most of the reasons that such happens is because of greed...........money to be had!! i stop there for now, cause it will ruin my story, but I'll pick it back up later on.
like i said in part 1 of this, i grew up in God's country. there was always something to do, and places to go. actually, writing this blog is restoring my childhood memories. I'm not sure why, but I've blocked most of them from my memory. maybe in time i will realize what happened to cause this.
growing up i had two sisters. they were 10-12 years older than me. i remember once in my life going swimming with them. i wasn't all that old. I'm gonna make a guess, and say that i was six. I'm not even sure how we got there, but i remember when i first saw this place that we went to swim.
it was beautiful!! i remember that i set on black flat rocks, and just played in the water beside the falls. yes,.......it had a waterfall. you could walk all the way crossed the creek on the flat rocks. actually, i believe that it was just one big rock but it had a few crevices in it.
there were some more people there, but they never bothered with us. i never knew where that place was located for several more years, but i knew that there was something special about it.
time had passed on, and i was 14 now. i spent the night with a friend from school one Friday night. Saturday we went into the woods to shoot some squirrels. all we did was actually shoot up a box of bullets, and absolutely no animals, or humans were harmed in the process. yep,.........that's right,......we were pretty bad shots!!
then he ask me if i wanted to see the falls. i said sure, and we took off walking. we walked down a dirt road for a long time, and then heading up a trail that was covered with huge rocks. this was rough terrain to walk on little lone try to drive on. it would have beaten a car to death.
as we got near i could hear the sound of falling water. the path ended, and we started walking toward the sound of the rushing water. all of a sudden something appeared before my eyes that i had saw before. we were in the place that i swam as a child. i didn't have a clue where this was, and i never remember going though this rough terrain to get there. actually, i didn't remember a lot about it, but now I'll never forget.
my buddy explain to me that it was called high falls. a popular hang out for the party crowd, and anybody that just wanted to get away for a while. there is a natural arch rock located on the top that the really bold, or stupid people jump from into the water. I've always felt that there is a fine line between bravery and stupidity, and it's never known which it is until the outcome!!
once i started driving to school, some times i would skip, and go spend the day at the falls with friends. we would smoke the good green stuff, and just chill for the day. i never saw a cop at the falls, because it was a bit difficult to get to. the only time they were down there was when some fool jumped from the arch rock, and missed the water, but caught another rock on the way down. which surprisingly enough was a common occurrence.
now,.......did it really take anything from the beauty of one of God's gifts to us? no,......not at all. it actually made it accessible to more people. people visiting from other states that would have never even known about it, and maybe some locals also. here is the thought that brings me peace. all those people who had went to the falls years ago as young bucks could still go now that they are elderly.
if there are folks out there that have as fond of memories as i do, and could no longer survive the trek down the path,............then i guess that i can let go of whatever i have personally against the change. that's another thing that i don't care for about getting older,.................you learn to see to see past yourself!!
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