Five things I miss from my childhood

06.22.05 (6:56 pm)

I've been tagged so here goes: Here is the list I was tagged from: LoriSchuster BilllyRyan MerMaid TrekGuy Basild Anastacia IckyDane 1. Spending a week at my grandparent’s home during the summers. Every summer when I was a kid my Grandparents would invite each grandchild to spend a week at their home to be with grandma and grandpa. Only one child at a time was allowed for several reasons actually. One was that my grandparents really didn’t want to take care of more than one at a time, no fighting with siblings this way. And it gave them time to focus on just one child and make the child feel special, and spoil them a bit too! 2. Feeling un-pressured, very loved, and secure all the time by someone else older and more responsible, my parents. My childhood was a very happy one in which I was allowed to be a child, run, play, goof off (mostly during the summer), just be a kid! There were no constant activities, or pressure to become an adult, and few distractions other than the TV and an occasional movie. 3. Having an imagination, and being able to be lost/consumed in it and all it’s pleasures and freedom. While I still have an imagination, it is no longer as vivid or do I use it as frequently as I did when I was a child. I miss that, and try as I may I can’t recreate that feeling/freedom or ability to get lost in world of my own making! I think so many adults have lost this ability. Oh a few still have it, the ability to get lost in that imaginary world. Poets, artists, writers, but sadly for many of us this is lost never to be regained! 4. Spending time in the woods/creeks/fields near my home discovering the wonders of nature and the outdoors. Oh don’t get me wrong, I still love the outdoors and I’m outside all the time, but it was that sense of discovery and wonder looking into a stream for the first time seeing the creatures, the stones and sand, the plants and discovering that world for the very first time, a time that will never come again. 5. Riding in my dad’s '67 Rambler station wagon traveling to the east coast and then the west coast with my parents and brothers. We did a lot of traveling in that old station wagon. My dad built a car top carrier and put all our camping gear in there and drove us around this country of ours and showed us the sights! We saw the mountains, the oceans, the big cities on both coasts that we’d only seen in magazines and on TV. What a wonderful machine it was to take us all those places!! I'm going to pass on picking 5 more!! Sorry I'm just bailing on this one!!

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posted by: lindy
post date: 06.22.05 (4:41 pm)

When reading of your lost imagination, I was reminded of 'The Little Prince'... worth picking up if you haven't already. Nice list. :)

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posted by: AmyLeeZealot
post date: 06.23.05 (11:02 am)

I know what you mean about having no worries...that's probably what I miss the most about being a kid. Just playing outside everyday and not caring!