A Paragraph a Day: Through a Child's Eyes
Today, let's look at the world through a child's eyes . . . your INNER child's eyes.
Let us not stroll but, instead, dash down memory lane to a time of unfiltered, uninhibited imagination. For the sake of today's conversation, let's say this is before the age of ten.
This is a time when "play" didn't mean fornication, inebriation, and clubbing-ation with spatters of reality television to fill the gaps. Play was coloring books, POGS, marbles, and catch. Play was recess doing four square hop scotch, tether ball, and tag. Jump rope, kickball, wall ball, and swings. Jungle gyms, SSR (sustained silent reading), holding your breath longer than your classmate, racing to the front of the school, along with show and tell.
Wishes and hopes were not wanting to win the lottery (for most youngin's). Wishes and hopes were waiting for a holiday just for the sake of having a three day weekend or hoping you could get your parents to let you stay home by acting sick. We hoped there would be a substitute teacher so we could watch movies all day or that our ten minute recess would magical become twenty minutes. And we all wished the the person in front of us would get off the water fountain by calling him a water hog!
This week, and every day forward, I would like people to remember they were a child once, and that your'e still the same person (albeit a tad older) today. Happy Monday!
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