Legos and my Childhood

One day, I took my Legos outside to show my friends—it was an X-wing starfighter from Star Wars, and I was very proud of it. For some reason, I told some little kids to take care of my set while I went to play with my friends from school. When I came back, my X-wing starfighter was deformed, and many of the pieces were stolen. Looking back now, this was the reason my relationship with Legos is where it is today. When I was growing up, I played with Legos more than anything else. I couldn't actually build what was in the box because the pieces were stolen, so I had to resort to creating my own things. I remember having stories where there was a good guy and a bad guy, and the good guy kills the bad guy. And this was pretty much the only story I had when playing Lego, but it was also different from every other time. It was different in the sense that I always built different and new things every time, so the experience felt new every time I sat down to play Lego. The setting always consisted of a base of operations for each character, and the process of building that setting was fun. One time I would build a house, then a plane, then a spaceship, etc. Because of the new elements that were added to the story, it was playing something new, and I didn't get bored. I was able to express my creativity while building new things, which itself served as a new experience on its own. I would also pretend that one character would fight another character, and I would give dialogues to them as well, which is kind of cringe when I think about it now, but I think those moments are vivid in my head because of those dialogues and the weird things I would do. While one might just buy new Lego sets so they can have a true new experience, they also happen to be very expensive, especially the ones that are interesting and big. And buying new Lego sets wasn't really an option for me, so I had to make do with what I had. I think because of this, it made my relationship and time playing with Legos more memorable and enjoyable. Because if I had new things to do, I would've just brushed the old sets off to the side and wouldn't have had the memories that I did have. Not to mention that they would've ended up as display sets rather than actual toys. Because of the way I played with Legos, I always see a story behind each Lego set, something I wouldn't have been able to see if my Legos weren't stolen that one day.

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  1. shovikFebruary 11, 2024 at 7:31 PM

    I love how you described the way you played with the Legos. the more I read, the more I was like "dang, I literally did the exact same thing", especially the cringey dialogue part, I thought I was the only one. I also like what you stated near the end, and how getting new sets would render older ones as less memorable.

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