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Going Back
Author unknown (Please email me if you know the source of this essay so we can give proper credit.)
Close your eyes... And go back...
Before the Internet or the
AIM
Before semi automatics and weed
Before playstation2 or
X-bOX
Before the 5 hours of homework you put off every
night...
Way back...
I'm talkin' bout hide and go seek at
dusk.
Red light, Green light.
Playing kickball & dodgeball
until your porch light came on.
Mother May I?
Red
Rover
four square
Hula Hoops
Running through the
sprinkler
Happy Meals
Getting the privelage to sit in the front
seat of the car
Wait...
Watchin' Saturday Morning
cartoons
Like Hey Arnold and Doug
Or what about legends of the
hidden temple, global guts, double dare, and who, ARE YOU AFFRAID OF THE
DARK!
Who could forget Snick
Or the teenage mutant ninja turtles,
and Power Rangers,
Christmas morning...
Your first day of
school
Bedtime Prayers and Goodnight Kisses
Climbing
trees
Getting an ice cream off the ice cream truck
A million
mosquito bites and sticky fingers
Jumpin' down the steps
Jumpin'
on the bed
Pillow fights
Runnin' till you were out of
breath
Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt and you almost peed your
pants
Being tired from playin' all day
Your first
crush...
Rainy days at school meant playing "Heads up 7-Up" in the
classroom
Remember that?
I'm not finished
yet...
Kool-Aid was the drink of the summer
Giving your friends a
ride on your handlebars or spokes
Wearing your new shoes on the first day
of school
Class Field Trips
When nearly everyone's mom was at home
when the kids got there.
When getting high was swinging on the
swingset
When $5 seemed like a million, and another dollar a
Miracle.
When your parents took you to McDonalds and you were so
cool.
When Toys r Us overuled the "mall"
I want to go back to
the time when...
Decisions were made by going
"eeny-meeny-miney-moe"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do
over!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
Money
issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "monopoly"
Catching
fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening
It wasn't odd to have
two or three "best" friends.
Being old, referred to anyone over
20.
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was
cooties.
Nobody was prettier than Mom
Nobody was cooler than
Dad
Scrapes and bruises were kissed and made better
It was a big
deal to finally be tall enough to ride the "big people" rides at the amusement
park.
Abilities were discovered because of a
"double-dog-dare"
Spinning around, getting dizzy and falling down was
cause for giggles.
If you can remember most or all of these, then you
have LIVED!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from
their "grown up" life...
i double dog dare you
Editors note : I received this as a bulletin on MySpace a few months ago. This essay initiated an interesting dialog
on our Second Attention discussion group. You can read that here :
Discusion on the 'Second Attention' Myspace group.
It would be interesting to see this dialog continue and see where it takes us.
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