24 September 2007
♥ "i wanna relive all my adolescent dreams." --guster
Remember when things were simpler? When it didn't matter if your best friend was a boy or a girl? When your most ambitious goal was figuring out how to get your mother to buy you cookie crisp? When your friends' parents being home meant you wanted to go over there because they made delicious cookies? Remember when the best part of your day was Dawson's Creek reruns and the worst was when your mother made something weird for dinner? Remember sticking the thermometer under your lamp so your mom would think you really did have a fever? Remember thinking someday, you were going to be just like those pretty girls in the Miss America Pageant? Remember thinking that falling in love would happen just as easily as it did in Aladdin and that the biggest obstacle in your way would be that you were a mermaid and your crush was a prince? Remember when your biggest challenge was getting that damn papier machee fish to look just right? When you dreaded gym class during that one horrible, long, awful week of gymnastics because you could neither perform a perfect cartwheel nor get past that first knot on the rope of doom? Remember thinking your teacher was cool because she said "Hey, people!" instead of "Now, children"? Remember when you thought it was weird that all the grownups were jealous of you because you had so much energy? Who doesn't have energy, anyway? Remember "the talk"? Remember camping in the backyard and coming inside early because there were too many scary noises and your dad was sick of you waking him up? Remember playing with the dogs in the backyard and assuming they would still be your dogs when you had your own backyard? Remember being jealous of your neighbors' swing sets and their above ground pools? When your neighbors were your best friends just because they were there? When the only numbers you had to remember were like two of your friends'? When it didn't matter who you called first because you knew you were all going to end up together anyway? Remember when your mom always made all those appointments for you and drove you around to all your lessons? When you didn't have to keep track of anything except the fairies in your mom's garden and whose turn it was to be the sidekick? When "Did you make the reservations?" was something your parents asked each other? Remember when your parents tried to pretend they weren't fighting because they knew you were in the next room? When they didn't let you know about money problems and it wouldn't have even mattered if they had because you didn't even know what that meant? Remember when you thought sex was gross, and not just in reference to your parents? Remember when your friend at school told you the tooth fairy wasn't real and that was about as heartbroken as you'd even been? Remember when being hurt just meant you'd fallen off your bike? Remember when saying "Hey, you can't swing that way!" meant that you shouldn't twist the swing around and let it twirl you till you puked? Remember when making pudding seemed really challenging? When you and your dad made faces at each other because your mom made broccoli with dinner? When you hated broccoli so much it made you gag?
When you didn't understand why your friend's big sister spent so much time on the phone? When kissing and boyfriends made about as much sense to you as current events? When the maddest you'd ever been at your parents was when they wouldn't let you go out and play hide-and-seek with the rest of the neighborhood because it was already past ten? Remember when you didn't know who the celebrities were or care what they did? Remember when you were daddy's little girl and he told you you were the most beautiful girl in the world and you believed him? Remember when you still had your whole life ahead of you? When every mistake really was just another thing you knew better than to do next time? When it was impossible to really fuck things up? Remember when the world really was your oyster and you could be anything you wanted to when you grew up? Let's try to live like that again.
When you didn't understand why your friend's big sister spent so much time on the phone? When kissing and boyfriends made about as much sense to you as current events? When the maddest you'd ever been at your parents was when they wouldn't let you go out and play hide-and-seek with the rest of the neighborhood because it was already past ten? Remember when you didn't know who the celebrities were or care what they did? Remember when you were daddy's little girl and he told you you were the most beautiful girl in the world and you believed him? Remember when you still had your whole life ahead of you? When every mistake really was just another thing you knew better than to do next time? When it was impossible to really fuck things up? Remember when the world really was your oyster and you could be anything you wanted to when you grew up? Let's try to live like that again.
9/24/2007
