Way Back When
There are some things (many things actually) that I miss about being a kid. Things seemed so simple back then. I remember watching some special on television about Earth Day and how everyone should make an effort to keep their neighborhoods clean. Well me, I grabbed a trashbag and ran up and down the street picking up every peice of trash, every cigarette butt, every coke can and when I was finished...I was sure I'd cleaned up at least half the world. It gave me such a feeling of satisfaction.
Later, while digging a hole in the back yard, I also determined that it MUST be possible for me to dig all the way to China. So I dug and dug and dug...but everytime I'd stop to admire my work...I realized that I was still in my backyard. Eventually I got tired and gave up but it wasn't because I realized I was wrong, it was simply because I thought my shovel wasn't big enough.
I wish things were so easy now.
posted by Lindsey @ 11/03/2005 07:52:00 PM
22 Comments:
This is a very beautiful message...don't forget the kid in u...
u r right...as we grow older we tend to forget the simple joys in life, we lose our innocence and the interest in the beauty of simple things in life...sad but true...
U seem to have been a very cute kid :) Digging all the way to China lol!
Keshi.
Ahhh....an idealistic dreamer....just like me
What not look for something that makes you feel that way again. Like you can do anything or that you must have made an impact. For me it is teaching art history but it could be anything!
I agree with you Linny. I wish I could be a kid all the time. If I could give up my real job and just write I'd be happy to spend my day creating fun ideas like digging to China. My work with kids makes me sad because so few of them still know how to be kids the way we did when we were young.
as a kid, i used to take eggs and wrap them in toilet paper. i would place them in warm places like behind the fridge. or in a cupboard above the stove... why u ask?
i thought they would hatch.
i had to stop when i got yelled at for making the house smelly.
it was fun imagining that I was gonna have a pet chicken.
i used to try to dig to china - i was so dissapointed when someone told me i couldn't... newman!
My sister and i had these underwear when we were little. We'd dress up in those and not much else and pretend to box LOL.
Sing it, sister...
I wake up every morning, and the day is fresh and new and I can go at my job with a vengence. Then by the time my day is done, I'm tired and frustrated, I remember that I am late turning in my portfolio, I am always behind on lesson plans for my classroom, and there's always 1 or 2 students that I don't know how to help! And it occurs to me... I don't think I appreciated being a kid when I was one!
For some reason, your post reminded me of HANDS ACROSS AMERICA. Do you remember that? My mom, sisters & I drove 2 hours to a place where we could hold hands with strangers linking us with others across the United States. I felt so full of hope that day.
there are so many things i miss about being a kid too
life was much simpler when all i had to worry about was the occasional grazed knee or where my pencil sharpener was
life is much harder with bills and the like, especially as i still can't find my pencil sharpener :(
digging was one of the coolest things ever when I was a kid.
I don't remember how man times I got scolded and or spanked for using screwdrivers, table spoons and other miscellaneous tools and silverware to use for my various digging projects.
I miss the complete freedom you felt the last day of school before summer break. I can't remember or think of another time when I am gonna feel that way. And that makes me sad.
Cute :-)
Think of it this way: Things aren't harder, we just have different priorities. Back then, it was not being able to go out and play, being denied sweets, friends not wanting to play :-)
Can't think of a good example from my childhood, but I was convinced those big building/lifting cranes were called 'San Franciscos' :-) ?
*sigh*
Don't we all wish that?
I totally tried to dig a tunnel to China also! I love that feeling of thinking you can do anything...I miss that feeling :)
Yes, ignorance is bliss...children and people who don't know any better tend to be much happier than those of us who know things that just depress us or make us question everything.
Wow, once again you could be in my head. I feel that way a lot. I miss the simplicity and the naps.
i wish i may i wish i might, make this wish i wish tonight,
i too wish things were that simple
That is why it is important that kids have a chance to be kids...We grown-ups need to remember the sweet days of our youth and all some of that fun back into our lives... I think this is why Jesus loved the little children.
Hmm, now there is a memory I haven't dredged up in years... digging a hole to China. I too tried that, and was so disappointed when it became apparent that it was just too large a task. I remember my Dad once told me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed I would grow one in my belly - I was petrified and put great effort into removing every single seed.
I miss being a kid! We would swim all day every day! We had no worries and I had the best tan ever!
Have a great weekend!
I do love being a kid. Just not the part where the parents have the control.
I remember when I was in kindergarden and we had thise bathrooms that we used and I thought that the walls were so high. I went back there a few years ago to see some old teachers and saw those same exact bathrooms and the walls went to my waist. Isn't it so weird how everything looks so much bigger when you are younger?
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