What Did You Accomplish When You Were Three?

Think back into your past about all the thing you accomplished as a child.  Go back to age three and explain what you did at age three. I know my mom always said that I didn't start walking until 19 months and then I would add, "Yeah, but I've been walking ever since."  Starting to walk is a pretty big deal, but I wasn't two yet. 

There were a lot of things going on in the world when I was three, such as November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was killed and February 7, 1964, when The Beatles came to America and that week they were on The Ed Sullivan Show.  I had nothing to do with either of those events and I don't remember watching them on television either.

I had to give it some thought after reading the news this week about a three-year old girl in Israel who was hiking with her family.  Did I do any hiking when I was three?  Eight? Fifteen?  I don't think so.

What did the three-year-old do? Her older sister, Omer Nitzan, explained what her sister, Ziv, did when they were walking with their parents near an archeological site.  "We were walking along the path, and then Ziv bent down, and out of all the stones around her, she picked this particular stone. When she rubbed it and removed the sand from it, we saw something that was different about it. I called my parents to come and see the beautiful stone."

She found a scarab-shaped Canaanite amulet that is about 3,8000 years old.  The three-year-old found something that is 3,797 years older than she is. Amulets like this were very popular in ancient Egypt and frequently would have symbols or religious beliefs on it. 

The excavation site has existed for the past fifteen years in Tel Azeka, which historically in the Bible is the place that David fought Goliath.  David was supposedly no more than sixteen years old at the time.

A few years ago I drove a bartender here in Myrtle Beach who when he was nine years old he was the ball boy for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1980.  He received a World Series ring when he was nine and I joked, "When you get something like that at nine years old, the rest of your life is all down hill."

What about this this three-year-old? Can she do any better than this in her life? Ziv Nitzen and her family received a certificate of appreciation for the discovery.  I wonder, will she one day put this on her resume and will this turn into being her future career?