How very true!

We were always outside playing "Kick the Can" pretty much every evening, regardless of the weather.

I remember one particular day it was pouring so bad that the streets were flooding. We didn't cower in the house. Me and my friends put on our raincoats and boots and went outside and played in the rain and the pools of water that were accumulating in the street. Other times we would rake up all of the leaves from our yard and those of our neighbours until we got a huge pile and then jump around in them and rake them up again and again.  It was tons of fun!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi