Tuesday, March 6

Demolition and childhood

Have you ever noticed that when buildings are being torn, knocked, imploded, etc...that a THRONG of people gathers? When I was in high school and living in Green Valley the Star Dust Hotel and Casino was imploded...it was on the news, there was a press conference...(have you seen Ocean's 11...similar scene)...we watched the implosion over and over again in early morning seminary...there may have been a lesson, but all I remember is the implosion. When the Inn at Temple Square was being knocked down with a wrecking ball, traffic was a disaster on the corner of West and South Temple...rubber-necking galore, people on the sidewalks...crazy! And just this last week near my office a parking structure is being torn down piece by piece with a back hoe! I'm not going to lie...it is cool, and as I'm walking by coming from the bus stop I crane my neck and pray I won't run into anyway on the sidewalk so I can watch. I've seen people in my office staring out the windows on the north west corner of the building to get a good view!

It reminds me of being a child, and building structures with Legos...that was fun and all...but I remember that my favorite part was the chaos of knocking them down, and destroying them. Why is that? Why is there so much awe and excitement in that destruction and large construction vehicles...like the back hoe? Remember when you were little playing at the park in the sand with the mini back hoe? I could have sat on that thing ALL day...just moving side from one place to another...building sand mounds, and then knocking them down! I loved it then and I love it now! Why?

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