I am working on a project, and i came across something i wrote about 20 years ago, and decided to share.
| I’ve come to realize that there are several things that i miss: -I miss running around my front yard during a summer afternoon sun shower -I miss playing outside in the snow for hours on end until i can’t feel my nose -I miss adding “and a half” to my age just so i could feel older -I miss the days when $5 was a lot of money -I miss laying in the grass to find shapes in the clouds -I miss the idea that 2am was really late -i miss hanging upside down on the monkey bars until my face was beet red and i could feel my pulse in my eyeballs -i miss the days when my biggest worry was not striking out during kickball -i miss dodge ball -i miss going swimming in my uncle’s pool for hours on end -I miss sleep overs -I miss not having a thing in the world to complain or worry about -I miss the days when christmas was exciting, halloween was a big deal and a three month summer vacation was a guarantee -i miss not knowing what suffering was -i miss piling into the car with my family just to see where random roads led to. -i miss the days when a kiss from mom could fix any boo-boo or heartache -i miss not having to make any difficult decisions. i guess what it really comes down to is that i miss the freedom, innocence and imagination of childhood. Being an adult has its perks, but being a child is much more fun. Sometimes i wish growing up had been an option. |
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 
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