When I was young, I role played many characters. Like Wolff when he was young I too, role played as a soldier, both the good guys and the bad guys. In role playing we find out what it means to win and lose, to be strong or weak. We become creative, imaginative. In doing this we are able to become this person with whom we have in high regard, he is my hero. I want to be like him when I grow up. I believe that we have to role play when we are young, it helps us mimic the adults that surround us. .
To mimic or emulate our parents, aunt, uncles I believe helps us grow as kids to better understand what it is like to be older, especially when playing dress-up, or trying to keep your younger sister amused by playing house with her. .
When I was younger, I use to dress up as a miner 49er. I would take two old towels, roll them up and tie them around my dog. I would put the leash on my dog, and we would go exploring, searching for treasure. I would pretend that we were out in the desert some where searching for a gold mine. When it would get hot outside or we would get thirsty, I would go back inside the house. My mom would be there, and I would tell her, bar keep, I need a tall shot of cherry cool aid and my mule needs some watering. My mom would laugh, and tell me it will be coming right up.
Since my mom would go along with me, I was able to be creative, to speak and do things. In role playing as a soldier, when I joined the military, I had this perception from a child as to what a soldier was suppose to be and do. While in the military, I was sort of like the character in on of my favorite comic books, Sgt Fury, a gung-ho sergeant, not afraid of anything in his way, fearless, ready to defend against anything that would hurt or go against his nation, his beliefs, family, and most of all his pride. .
In being able to roll play, now as I am all grown-up, don't we still do it, but at a different level, but no one seems to recognize we are doing it like when we were children, it was expected of us.
