yep, John Deere, model?, guess most all were John Deere back then? .. some tugging plow, mostly with a disc harrow, up and down then crisscross; then there was collecting wheat, but those times, not so much thinking .. loved the thinking, yet, the result of much of mine was different than yours ..
ouch, chuckle .. you worked it more more quickly than i did .. lol .. and weren't fucked up so emotionally .. was told i was very sensitive, mother died, lost on Burnaby Mt. (either subconscious suicide or conscious) when i was about 4 ..
on your "until i could separate the logical solution from the emotional one" .. i never did .. imagine a 14y old kid not having a girlfriend just because he knew then he would never marry her, and he didn't want to hurt her .. ever .. self-centered, or what .. i've read that some with a bad inferiority complex can bounce to the other extreme, delusion of grandeur, more narcissistic, that stuff .. i was emotionally stunted and illogical, for sure .. Dad repressed emotion, home was comfortable middle class, yet i grew up 'emotionally' alone .. lol .. an old one .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=57127235 .. (on a thought and to save writing) .. with it all though, through it all, fun times .. tooo many children never ever have it so good! .. we were very lucky, loved the solitude of the tractor work as you did, guess i got some positive result ..
"But it became a part of us, eh?" .. yes, i'm comfortable whenever alone now, too .. though i know heaps of healthy, good stuff is missed ..
Dad used to wonder why at his parties i always preferred the company of adults .. one favorite was an alcoholic wife .. she was morose, yet open .. at about 14 we talked at most every party ..