Oh to be young again...what would you do to go back to child/teen hood even for just one day?
-unicorns
-stuffed animals
-dressing up like dolls
-the little mermaid/sleeping beauty
-red lips and lollipops
-lolita
-the little rascals/my girl
-cat power i found a reason
-anti valentine's day
-pink and lilac
-swings and slides
-laughing and crying without second thinking it
-play
-seeing the good before the evil
-photobooths (and no, not the one on your macbook)
-hearts and heart sunglasses
-neutral milk hotel& arcade fire
-pig tails
-coloring books and stick figures
-dress up time
-playing pretend for fun, not pretending to be happy
-prada spring/summer 2010
-giles deacon
-young love
-balloons, watching them fly away from you until you can't see them anymore
-holding hands
-pretending love exists without pain
-happy-ness
-skipping
-random trips to target to look at toys/useless dollar items section
-my little pony
-disposable camera
-believing in what we can't necesarily see, and the intangible
-rainbows
-hiding under your blanket in the thunderstorm
-mash/bash/or cash
-talking on the phone all nite and not texting at all
-hopefulness and ambition
-dreams
-everything we see in the movies, must be the same in real life
-excessive exclamation!!!!!!!
-telling someone how you really feel and not regretting it
-love notes
-"luv," vs Love
-lust vs. well, lust
-passing out valentines day cards to friends for no reason
I feel that we are more pure, more "ourselves," if you will, when we re children. All the experience and alleged knowledge that we achieve and discover taints us and vacumes up who are as individual. As we get older, we lose a part of us, we create a mask and a new "professional," and politically and socially acceptable character to present to the worlds. If kids are sad, they will be sad, they will cry. If kids love someone, they will tell them and give them a hug. If kids don't like someone or something, bless their hearts, they will tell you bluntly and unapologetically. They are the most honest and pure of human beings and are able to still imagine and believe in the good in life. I feel as many of us get older, we become more and more self conscious, confused, unhappy, and unsure of what to make of ourselves and of our lives. we forget what makes us happy because sometimes, that is not the most important thing.
I wish I could just be a kid again and just be real, i guess.
| "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: | |
| The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, | 60 |
| Hath had elsewhere its setting, | |
| And cometh from afar: | |
| Not in entire forgetfulness, | |
| And not in utter nakedness, | |
| But trailing clouds of glory do we come | 65 |
| From God, who is our home: | |
| Heaven lies about us in our infancy! | |
| Shades of the prison-house begin to close | |
| Upon the growing Boy, | |
| But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, | 70 |
| He sees it in his joy; | |
| The Youth, who daily farther from the east | |
| Must travel, still is Nature's priest, | |
| And by the vision splendid | |
| Is on his way attended; | 75 |
| At length the Man perceives it die away, | |
| And fade into the light of common day." -william wordsworth This is an excerpt from one of my favorite poems of all time, "Ode Intimations of Immortality." In this poem Wordsworth expresses a similar idea and theory similar to that of mine, saying that we are simply more spiritual and more pure when we are younger because we are closer to god, "to our home," and as we grow older we are brainwashed into becoming someone we're not and trying to a be a good citizen or, whatever society tells us is right. Nothing else is acceptable so we are, in essence, forced to conform, and we do this subconsciously. |
*Play on a swing today!*
