Day 13: Our Childhood

Hello stranger,

I swear to my whole life I did not deliberately leave this post for days after I wrote my last one just to prove my whole theory about the 'Tomorrow' thing. But, I told you so. I've just been really lazy busy these days. Last week of school and all. Actually I'm supposed to be at school today for the whole 'End of Year Ceremony' thing. But I couldn't be bothered going. Good student. Now I'm on my parents' bed finally writing a new post. Sorry for the wait. Ha, as if.

Anyway, how much do you think you can remember from your childhood? What's your earliest childhood memory? Mine would be when my mom had to put earrings on me when I was little so people would know I'm a girl. Quite embarrassing. But then again, what from our childhood isn't. So I'm kind of writing this post because I think it's very important to make people see how big the change occurring today is. I mean I know change is bound to happen. This is a growing world after all. It's the way that our world's changing that we need to take notice of.

Don't you think things were much better when we were little? When the only things you cared about were your toys, when you didn't have to think of what to wear for the day because your mother does it for you, when the only important boys in your life were your father and your brother, when you didn't have to watch what you ate, when the 'Tooth Fairy' was real, when you wrote letters to 'Santa', when it was okay to cry in public, and when the world was a big magical place of good things.

But all of those things started to expand as we grew older. We realized that there are more important things we could care about, that what you wear for the day makes a huge difference on how an individual thinks about you, that you will meet other boys apart from your father and your brother, that you need to watch your weight because that's how most people will judge you, that the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist, that Santa was really 'St. Nicholas', that nowadays crying could be interpreted by some people as a way to seek attention, and that the world is a very distorted place.

I guess the things that we learned along the process of growing up also have benefits for us. Well for one, they can get us jobs. Without literally speaking though, yes, the changes these days are not all that great, but some of those changes are for the better as much as the others make our lives a living hell. What I really don't understand though is the idea that, why did things have to change this way?

What way? That way. To your right. Yeah, keep walking.

In all seriousness, don't you ever wonder how it came to this? To what? To that, over there. Whe- No. I'm not going to start with that again. Do you believe that a person's character can be derived from the environment they grew up in? I must say that I strongly believe in this theory, regardless of how true it may seem or not. Although I'm not forcing the idea on anyone. But we know that everything these days are based on our surroundings, or just everything in general.

Our childhood is a great influence to what or who we are now as much as anything else is. It helped to shape up the person we want/wanted to be, chose to be, or were forced to be. One's childhood may not be as great as another's, but what's more important is that we learn from it, and try not to let it affect us in the future. The 'childhood' is supposed to be a great memory isn't it? Full of false imaginations and beautiful perceptions of different things. Do you wish it stayed that way?

Next Time: Why Good Things Come To An End