We were a gang of boys growing up at the end of the road. Entertainment was hard to come by. Television only had two channels, and if it wasn’t for Bonanza and Star Trek, we would have gone nuts.
To break the monotony, we would sometimes get two of the guys to fight each other. I can still hear the punch that hit one of the boys in the chest. He replied with, “That didn’t hurt.” Well, it did hurt, and not just physically, but emotionally as well. His parents left town when he was a young teenager, never to return. A heart attack took his life before he was forty. I wish I could have met him as an adult to say, “I’m sorry we treated you the way we did.”
Those events of our youth come back to haunt us. Solomon had those regrets and that is why he left such good advice for a younger generation.
Ecclesiastics 12:1
Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,
Before the difficult days come,
And the years draw near when you say,
“I have no pleasure in them”:
Sometimes the difficulties are the memories of the transgressions of our youth.
Give it some thought.
Gary