{"id":36,"date":"2026-07-01T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aprilia-canada.ca\/?p=36"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:30:42","slug":"summertime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aprilia-canada.ca\/index.php\/2026\/07\/01\/summertime\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m a just barely a gen alpha, a child of a millennial, a digital-native youth. And I was recently talking with my mother, someone who has grown up pre-digital and now exists in a world of constant social media notifications. And sometimes I wish I grew up like her. She spent her time playing in trees, exploring the backyard, or walking around the block. She had access to complete liberty, something I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She tells me stories of buying her first phone, mind you this was before smart phones. She had moved out of her parents house at 19 (without a phone!). And moved to Colorado to live with some friends. She said that her first phone was a flip phone with a pay-per-use plan. I don\u2019t think she even had a computer. She was given a old 1986 Chevy Nova and used that to escape her childhood and drive into early adulthood.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Her 86 Nova didn’t even have a tape player!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

And I think there is a common trend between her generation and mine. My friends and I talk about unplugging<\/a> and rejecting social media. Especially with the rising development of AI I\u2019m not sure I want to work in tech and am looking about learning a trade instead. AI is never going to replace plumbers! Or electricians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something also that I want to work on this summer is getting outside with my friends. Covid really was terrible and I miss being around people other than my mom. :\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are all these new paddle ball courts around town, and I keep seeing them online. And maybe I\u2019ll be even able to meet someone! I absolutely hate the apps and want to get off them.<\/a> It apparently started in Mexico, way back in the 1960s. Ten years ago only 10,000 courts existed, but not that\u2019s septupled.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve played it a couple times, and I really love it. It harkons back to tennis a bit in my experience. But with out the yuppieness. It also seems like a lower barrier to entry, it\u2019s not hard to pick up a racket and just enjoy yourself. Annnd you\u2019re always playing with someone else. It\u2019s a good time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now while earlier I ralled against technology, there\u2019s one thing that I like about padel. It\u2019s the ease of reservations. Sometimes I feel a bit of social anxiety when my friends and I come to a court and there\u2019s people playing already. Apparently, it\u2019s okay to just wait your turn. But sometimes I feel a bit weird? Or like when we\u2019re all playing and want to go for another game, but then there\u2019s some people waiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of these courts has a padel club management software<\/a> so then we can just reserve the time we want, and there\u2019s no social anxiety. Overall, the more I write about it, or think about it the more I want to play. I gotta get out of the house\u2026 my mother is slowly driving me insane. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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