I don't about the rest of you but I find that as you get older, everything gets more and more complicated.
The other day I was sitting around and thinking about things and the thought came into my head "I really miss when I could go down the street and buy an ice cream." I used just walk down the street enjoying it slowly, it was kind of like a game, predict where it the drips would most likely be coming from and take out that spot first.
Other days I'd sit in the backyard and pretend to be anything I wanted and it would be so real. . . but when I got older, playing pretend lost its charm and it made me sad because I knew I was turning into one of those "horrid adults who don't understand anything"
I don't know about the rest of you but, I miss the simple things, walks in the park, wading through the bushes that were taller than me because I was so short, reaching over the counter at a buffet restaurant struggling to make my short little arm reach the salad tongs, riding my bike down the street, pick-up games of street hockey, making "medicine" out of leaves and flowers. . . the list goes on.
I suppose we never really appreciate the things we're doing when we're little, we know they're fun but, we never think we'll stop doing them. In our little minds, its going to be this way forever.
Forever is awful short. . .
Some days I wish I could do some of those things again but it is a stage that we need to get past so I'm looking forward and I promise myself that one of these days I am going down to the drugs store to get a good old fashioned cone with ice cream. One of these days when its too rainy to go out I'm gonna have a picnic indoors with trees in the their pots all around in the middle of the living room floor. One of these days I'm gonna get some bubble mix and blow loads of bubbles out in public.
I'm going try and do some simple things maybe a little childish, and I'm going to enjoy the hell out of them.
