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But the fun wore off…

Posted on 16. Dec, 2009 by Brett in God

It started with a Nintendo. It seemed like everyone but us had one. Then that fateful rainy day finally came when mom drove me and my two older brothers to Huntsville, and we returned with that two-tone grey plastic box of fun. We played the heck out of that 8-bit Super Mario game. We bought new games. We threw controllers. We blew dust out of the cartridges. We had fun…

…but the fun wore off.

So I set my eyes on something new.

A metal detector! There was this one in the Sears catalog that I drooled over. And I got it. I metal-detected the heck out of my frontyard, backyard, the woods in my neighborhood. I found lots of buried beer cans and other exotic aluminum treasures. Alas, I got bored with my new toy and the fun wore off. So I set my eyes on a brand new…

SUPER Nintendo! And I heard there was a Super-er Mario game where you could get this racoon tail and…FLY! Wow! How cool! And the Trapp’s got a Super Nintendo, and every day after school I would fly the heck out of that racoon-tailed Super Mario. BUT, the fun wore off, the years ticked by and the search rolled. So as I approached 16, I got all worked up for…

A driver’s license! And with that license would come the freedom to practically own the streets of Florence, Alabama. Think of the places I could go! Lauderdale Lanes, Chat-n-chew, church! And so my 16th birthday came and went. I drove the heck out of that hand-me-down 1991 maroon Mitsubishi Galant. But after awhile, driving kind of got old and the fun wore off.

“I know what it is,” I thought. “A new car!”

And that’s exactly what I got my senior year of high school. Well, not new-new…but new to me. A 1996 cherry red Isuzu Rodeo. Wow! I drove the heck out of that car all through college and into my first job. But the excitement eventually evaporated and so did the fun.

And so it went on. A new computer, a new Tahoe, my first house. They were all fun…

…but the fun wore off.

And that’s how it is isn’t it? Ask Tiger. The fun wore off a billion bucks and a smokin hot wife, eh? Who knew that was possible?

“If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.” –C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity