Wolfdog91
05-30-2022, 06:43 PM
So one thing I like doing is teaching kids. Dont really matter what it is can be anything from video games to shooting, I like teaching when I can but something I gotta say I love is seeing a kid pick the hard way to do something. I honestly feel it's a shame now days that so many times when it comes to learning something people( kids and adults) just pick the easiest way. And if there isn't a really way 123 way to do something they don't even attempt it. There no love for the process, of learning and discovering things about you and the whatever your working on. There's no stories about how hard you worked to get to a point and how awesome it was when you finally got there. It's just " I bought this it works woopity do ".Which I guess isn't bad most of the time ,dont get me wrong I do that with many things,( like if im at work and I can move a pallet of 80lbs concrete bags with a fork lift vs moving each bag by hand well imma pick the easy way lol )and I get some people are just like that. That's how they enjoy stuff and that's fine .But seems to me by doing that in many things....you lose something. Personally when it comes to learning something I want to learn I generally like doing what most would consider more difficult. Just doing the easy way and being done almost immediately just dosent do anything for me whatsoever. But when someone doesn't care how hard something will be , especially a kid , and they are determined to just keep at it and to tweak and modify and to learn and ask stuff until they get it. There's something, special about that.
Was at the river Saturday with some friends. I had bought a cast net just to mess around and see what I'd catch. Well as I was out casting and catching shad, chubs and what not . Some of the kids would come up ask what the fish where, wanted to hold them and show their parents and all that stuff. Was making there little days so why not lol. Well one of my friends little brothers walked up , think he was 12 , And asked me to teach him how to cast net.I told him I'd be happy to but it takes a good bit of practice and it's a little hard to get the hang of it since there no real one right way to do it and he'd have to tweak it around till it worked for him. Kid just smiled shrugged and said ok he wanted to learn. So I showed him the method I did, caught a few fish and handed it to him. Show him how to coil the rope how to position the bet and himself along with some finer points. And I'm not gonna lie he couldn't throw the net more then 3' for the first ten casts but he never got upset. He'd look at me every now and then and I just joke with him and tell him to keep trying. He just kept working on it. I'd give him a little suggestion here and there joke with him and tell him how bad I used to be, but for the most part it was just him. That kid was determined to get a cast like I did and catch a fish. So 15min turned into 30min then and hour and he just kept working on it. I'd look up and he'd be adjusting his stance to trying more or less coil. Slow and slowly I saw that net opening more and more. Three hours later I'm watching him and he just props up like he's about show off and rings out a perfect cast and the look on that kids face was absolutely priceless !
I walked up and told him how great of a cast it was as he was pull up a net full of shiners and I coulda swore the kid just downed a 12pack of red bull the way he was acting lol. Kid just kept saying " I got it! I got it ! laugh "
Kid went around slaying shad in the shallows for the next hour. Kept a bunch for my friends turtle. At the end I was gonna give him the next since it was only like a $20 Walmart net but him and mom took off before I could offer . But yeah idk it's something about seeing someone especially, that young ( I mean I'm only 24 so what can I say lol), in today's "all ya gotta do is / it would just be easier to society " work on something till they get it that just makes me all warm and fuzzy on the inside lol !
Was at the river Saturday with some friends. I had bought a cast net just to mess around and see what I'd catch. Well as I was out casting and catching shad, chubs and what not . Some of the kids would come up ask what the fish where, wanted to hold them and show their parents and all that stuff. Was making there little days so why not lol. Well one of my friends little brothers walked up , think he was 12 , And asked me to teach him how to cast net.I told him I'd be happy to but it takes a good bit of practice and it's a little hard to get the hang of it since there no real one right way to do it and he'd have to tweak it around till it worked for him. Kid just smiled shrugged and said ok he wanted to learn. So I showed him the method I did, caught a few fish and handed it to him. Show him how to coil the rope how to position the bet and himself along with some finer points. And I'm not gonna lie he couldn't throw the net more then 3' for the first ten casts but he never got upset. He'd look at me every now and then and I just joke with him and tell him to keep trying. He just kept working on it. I'd give him a little suggestion here and there joke with him and tell him how bad I used to be, but for the most part it was just him. That kid was determined to get a cast like I did and catch a fish. So 15min turned into 30min then and hour and he just kept working on it. I'd look up and he'd be adjusting his stance to trying more or less coil. Slow and slowly I saw that net opening more and more. Three hours later I'm watching him and he just props up like he's about show off and rings out a perfect cast and the look on that kids face was absolutely priceless !
I walked up and told him how great of a cast it was as he was pull up a net full of shiners and I coulda swore the kid just downed a 12pack of red bull the way he was acting lol. Kid just kept saying " I got it! I got it ! laugh "
Kid went around slaying shad in the shallows for the next hour. Kept a bunch for my friends turtle. At the end I was gonna give him the next since it was only like a $20 Walmart net but him and mom took off before I could offer . But yeah idk it's something about seeing someone especially, that young ( I mean I'm only 24 so what can I say lol), in today's "all ya gotta do is / it would just be easier to society " work on something till they get it that just makes me all warm and fuzzy on the inside lol !