It catches me unawares...the longing to go back. To simpler days..to my youth. It doesn't always happen, but when it does I can almost see myself at 10 or 11 years of age. Summer days spent riding my bike with a gang of kids at my side..flying down small country roads, and feeling the joy of living. We were all friends, and each summer day an adventure. I can remember climbing trees, jumping the creek..staying up late outside and catching lightening bugs, playing kick the can...hoping down railroad ties. Life was so much easier, so much simpler. I yearn for a chance to have a do-over, another chance to feel that vitality of youth.
If we end..do we begin again? I hope so. I'd love another chance to live those years. Especially with the knowledge of my life that I carry with me now. I wish that I could remember it all, even as a toddler. It would make the best home movie. One that could be replayed at will. I know it's not possible..but imagine...living your life over. Creating new possibilities. New memories..new adventures.
It is perhaps my age that is bringing on these thoughts. But how magnificent to live those days again. I miss times that were not so complicated. The sound of my mother calling me in for dinner....the laughter in a room of my friends just being silly....the squishing of mud between my toes...the joy in running and laughing all at once...water fights that circled a home...hanging from the monkey bars...seeing the force of nature and feeling awe at it's destructive powers...bringing home a good report card...playing quietly with my toys...making up a "Play" on a rainy day....
There is so much I'd like to revisit. I wish that it was possible.
K~*
If we end..do we begin again? I hope so. I'd love another chance to live those years. Especially with the knowledge of my life that I carry with me now. I wish that I could remember it all, even as a toddler. It would make the best home movie. One that could be replayed at will. I know it's not possible..but imagine...living your life over. Creating new possibilities. New memories..new adventures.
It is perhaps my age that is bringing on these thoughts. But how magnificent to live those days again. I miss times that were not so complicated. The sound of my mother calling me in for dinner....the laughter in a room of my friends just being silly....the squishing of mud between my toes...the joy in running and laughing all at once...water fights that circled a home...hanging from the monkey bars...seeing the force of nature and feeling awe at it's destructive powers...bringing home a good report card...playing quietly with my toys...making up a "Play" on a rainy day....
There is so much I'd like to revisit. I wish that it was possible.
K~*
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