The good ol' days...

I was playing tiggy with my friends the other day and...

Wait a second, maybe I should explain why we were playing tiggy.

So I'm pretty certain all teenagers come to the realisation that they want to be kids again at some point. While this pales in comparison to the classic 'mid-life crisis', it still deserves a name so that when people are using it, they don't have to say "The point in every teenager's life when they realise they want to be kids again." In any case, I'm going to term it the "teen-life crisis."

The teen-life crisis usually occurs around the 15 year old mark, and can continue anywhere from 3-6 years. It is a period where teenagers will regularly reference things they used to do when they were kids, now that they are old enough to realise how much time they wasted. It is usually brought on by excessive amounts of work and responsibility and disappears around the age that the teenager in question can drink alcohol and drive [not simultaneously hopefully, let it be known that I do not endorse features seen in games such as GTA (although GTA is f**king awesome!)]

As I am 15, I have been discovering for the past couple of months just how much time I have squandered and am now in the process of trying to recover whilst experiencing the ups and downs associated with workload and responsibility. Hence, I find that playing tiggy makes-up for lost time. There is, however, another reason I see tiggy as a reasonable activity. This comes back to the original point of why I am writing this ramble. Back to the start...

... I was playing tiggy with my friends the other day and, just before the game started, I had the 'pleasure' of listening to the objections of one of my friends, "Harry", as to why we shouldn't play tiggy (Note: before I had come up with the idea, we had been playing tennis). Although the original excuses were jumbled up due to Harry's apparant mental retardation (Actually, he's alright. But due to his views on this subject, I will portray him as mentally retarded), I will single them out for you:

1) His first point was that the game was childish. I have already answered why I did not accept this excuse earlier in the ramble, but I will briefly say it again. I did not see this as an issue because first of all, I did not care if other people thought it was childish and secondly, it was the exact reason I had chosen tiggy. While he did not think this a reasonable response, I let him give his second excuse.

2) Tiggy is not good exercise. I had massive problems with this objection. To begin with, it did not matter if it was not good exercise. I said to him, "Is Halo good exercise? Is COD good exercise? Is pizza for dinner good exercise?" (keeping in mind we were at a sleepover and these were all things we had done or were planning to do).

My second problem with this was that tiggy is good exercise. How is running, lunging and dodging not good for your health? If anything, it's probably better for you than tennis (actual tennis, not mario tennis :P) in many ways (not that I'm bagging tennis, after all it's one of my favourite sports).

Harry then went on to argue that if that was true...

3) Why is tennis a sport, and tiggy isn't? While the answer seemed simple at first, I found myself thinking "That's a good question." Numerous reasons came to me, like:

• Tiggy has too many people
• It wouldn't be interesting to watch
• There is no real way to score it
• Personal vendettas would interfere with proper competition

I quickly came up with solutions to these problems however. Whilst leaving me with no answer, it was then that I realised:

 I could turn tiggy into an actual sport!

There was one problem with this plan though, and it was one which could ruin it entirely. You thought a Snorlax being in the way was a problem? Think again. My problem was that...

It would require effort!

In fact, in a similar way to the afore-mentioned Snorlax, I am too lazy to do almost anything (except use snore :) ). Due to this, it may take some time until I post about the proposed rules, but rest assured I will post about them sometime!

Anyway, I think I got a bit off track. So I convinced Harry to play tiggy (it was awesome by the way!) and the night continued on into more fun with one of my other friends. But I'll leave that story for later ;)

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