Yesterday afternoon Ellie and I thought it would fun to go back into Ellie's woods and look at our old "civilization." We walked back what used to seem like such a long distance to the clearing in the woods known as "Terra Island" derived from Terabithia. Here we were surprised to see many of our structures still standing and we were filled with sentiments of the past. We walked down the old "Mall", (which was what we called the main passage through the civilization) and looked closely at our different forts. Thorns and weeds have overgrown the insides of them a considerable amount, and several boards/sticks have fallen down. It barely looked like a group of buildings, but as a child, it was nothing short of a town.
It was interesting to see what types of structures our ten-year-old selves thought of, compared to what we built on our survival stay. Most of them were nothing but a few sticks, marking off small plots of land. There were very few roofs, and the siding was quite lackluster. The shelters would provide no protection from precipitation and wouldn't conserve warmth at all. The reason for the lacking qualities of these structures compared to our shelter is that we made these with no drive for survival. We knew that if needed the house was a 5 minute walk away so there was no reason to build something so extensive that we could live in it.
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