Unintentional Reminders of Youth

I received a call a couple of weeks ago that my 17 year old son was in the ER after sticking his hand through the windshield of a car. And, that I needed to go sign a release for him to be treated.

Two weeks before the end of school he was horsing around with some friends. He jumped on the hood of an old Crown Vic as the driver (a friend) gunned the car. His hand went through the windshield half way to the elbow. He received 13 stitches in the palm of his hand but no permanent damage and probably a pretty minor scar, but something that will remind him forever of high school days. And, maybe he will be a little more careful in the future

I got to thinking about some of my own childhood, teenage, young adult mishaps. I wonder how many of you have little scars, slightly crooked fingers, bad back, trick knees, etc. that remind you of younger years. I have a finger that occasionally gets knocked out of joint and I can’t wear a wrist watch with a metal band (because of a slightly dislocated wrist that wasn’t diagnosed until I was 30 years old) and a thumb that has almost no feeling on one side. All of these are from minor injuries received during high school and college years. I bet most of you have similar little reminders of times gone by.

As our memories of younger times fade, it some of these we remember most clearly.