[DianeM]

Originally Posted by Velvet

I think that some people are so used to looking to others to be entertained that they don’t know how to keep themselves happy. Thus the need for organized activities. Someone else is needed to keep them happy. Someone else to give them comfort. They are even willing to pay for it. To me that is just sad.

As a child we lived in a rural area because we were hiding from the Communists. (My father was a leader in the revolution and my mother was trying to keep him alive.) After breakfast my parents would let me outside with my older cousin and the dog and the cat. We made up games to play in the fields, swam and fished in the river, picked fruit and nuts from our orchard. Happiest years.

So well said.