What is it About Forts?

My last post was all about ones imagination and how having an imagination is so important no matter how old you are. This post is along similar lines. Building a fort!!!! Building a fort as a kid was one of the most fun activities imaginable. I always used to get my aunt to build a fort for me because she did it in these ugly brown couches we had but they were so flimsy I could never do it myself. I thought she has some special and magical power because she could always make the fort just right, and it never fell down.

What was the point of a fort though? Like, what would you be doing in there!? Once I was in my fort that my aunt made, I couldn’t move around that much because I didn’t want it to topple down., so I would just sit in there. Once in a while call out and ask if someone could bring me a snack and water but that’s as exciting as it would get.

Ok so that was one type of fort, the other kinds were the forts you would make with your friends during sleepovers. You would put the sheets up above you as if you were in a tent and it was your private room of some sort. What was it about having private little spaces? Being magical and feeling powerful. A way to hide from the world. But what could you possibly have to hide from in the world at that age? I understand the guy below wearing this tee, he obviously would rather be in his fort than what he’s doing!

T-shirt courtesy of Crazy Dog

The one kind of fort that I never got as a kid that I wanted to badly was a tree fort. Now those are cool. I would even still want one now. I mean, it was your own little house. You didn’t even have to pay rent at that age. You could just climb up, have your secret meetings, make ‘clubs’ and have only selected people come up to your tree house. I’m definitely going to get a tree house for my kids. One because I know they would love it and it would be fun for them, and two, I want to use it.