Monday, October 01, 2007
children day musings
Posted by maei at 10:28 PM
an article for childhood.
so many times in life, i guess we do wish time would just stop ticking, and you can forever remain in a single frame of time. one where you don't have to think about the future, or the past, where pet peeves and tempers and bad habits and background don't play a part in life.
when you can just pass time doing things of absolutely no consequence to your life, and each day is just as separate from yesterday as it is tomorrow.that is what childhood is like.
when you don't have to worry about how your studying today might affect your sleep and exams the day after tomorrow.
hm.. actually i think all of what i may say is useless.
because the main point is that, childhood is when you can live today like there is no tomorrow.
not in the sense that today will be the last day, and you have to live it to the max, but in that there is no future to think of, and it will forever be just today, even after you wake up after a great night's rest.
that is what childhood is like.
there is a childhood in everything. not just in life. there is a childhood in every relationship you build. or every different relationship even with the same person. the childhood of a loving relationship, when all is like a honeymoon. the childhood of marriage, when children and retirement and who does what chores don't interrupt your lives.
childhood is something we should all celebrate. because it can only come once, and after that, no matter how you may wish to re-create the magic, it is always foreshadowed by the fact that tomorrow will always come with an extra day's worth of unresolved problems.
however, with each day that childhood is zealously held on to, it builds a dam higher and higher, behind which is yesterday's problems, and the yesterday before's, and the yesterdays before. this is a scenario when we say "please face the reality".
i wish my childhood were back here.
my childhoods. all of them.
but i guess it's just me being silly. because, eventually, i will have to face the problems and grow up, and step into the real world. the real world where all is not idealized, and your ealise that what you do today does in fact affect what happens tomorrow and while you were immersed in an endless loop of todays, the time continues to pass.
sigh.
wish i was a kid again. then i wouldn't be so terribly bothered by life, school and everything uncool.
happy children's day.
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