Mon,
April 14, 2014
I
May Not Be, But I Am
I
may not be a Boy Scout, but I am all the things they teach you to be:
loyal, fair, trustworthy and kind.
When
I was a child, Cub Scouts and then eventually Weblos was about a
uniform, the Pine Box Derby and selling home knick-knacks
door-to-door out of a cardboard briefcase called The Tom Watt Kit.
The badges we would strive for, in essence had little to do with
character traits, but were rather about mastering certain
“life-skills” only useful to heroes seen in action-adventure
films.
Would
acquiring my lumbering, archery, hiking and canoeing and equestrian
badges really make me a better person in society, or were they just
bragging rights to be announced at a later date to impress such and
such and so and so?
Whatever
the case, the things I learned that I can be proud of today were
always available to me in the faces of the men and women that took on
my upbringing and supplied me with the best kind of bragging rights:
I promise to be loyal, fair, trustworthy and kind.
