Childhood!

[GSLeloo]

Something someone just said in a post gave me a good idea... What's your best memory from childhood (talking little kid)? Like the kind you look back on and smile and wish everything could be that simple and pure again.

[StrayRogue]

Years (grades) 10 and 11, just before finishing high school; The memory of the entire year there is perpetually in a sunny light. We played soccer all lunchtime, our shirts un-tucked, classes were easy and fun, I was in love for the first time ever and she was my best friend, everything seemed so possible and so limitless. I'd give anything to be back then. Incredible year (s).

[GSLeloo]

You could always check school records, you know. Or Maury!

Originally posted by GSLeloo
Something someone just said in a post gave me a good idea... What's your best memory from childhood (talking little kid)? Like the kind you look back on and smile and wish everything could be that simple and pure again.

My first girlfriend, Jennifer. I was in 2nd grade, she was in 1st. Her smile made my heart flutter and I didn't even understand what boyfriends and girlfriends did. We held hands all the time and talked a lot... we would hug and stuff, walk everywhere together.

But the feeling was the most amazing thing for me. It was the purest love I think I've ever known, and I was too young to even understand it.

We had a week off of school for some reason and when I came back, she was gone.

I never heard from her again... I guess in a way that's probably what all my hang-ups are about... a part of me has been looking for her ever since. Unfortunately, not knowing her last name won't get me very far.

[GSLeloo]

But my best memories were probably when I was really little and like my friend and I and all the people on the block would get together and we'd put on plays and make up songs and stuff. Just play make believe, you know? One time we did Aladdin and I was Jasmine... these are the things that I remember. Plus I'd never seen the movie so it was a bit hard to do the play.

Originally posted by GSLeloo
You could always check school records, you know. Or Maury!

I'm kinda scared to. By now, she's about 20. She's not going to be the same girl I knew... things change. Life changes people. Age changes people.

[StrayRogue]

Originally posted by GSLeloo
You could always check school records, you know. Or Maury!

Well we don't have grades here. We start high-school at year 7 (our seventh year of schooling), years 10 and 11 being our last.

[Lord Deprav]

Without a doubt in any aspect me and my dad playing catch. We played in a modern trailer court by an eletrical box (which was green) almost twice a week. I live in a house in the same town as that trailer was in and from time to time I stop by there and have a reflection.

Deprav
Who's past is who has become.

[Kurili]

Walking with my dogs through the woods, fishing, hunting. Christmases. Lights and decorations never seem as bright as I remember them from being a kid. I think kids see things so much brighter than we do.

Acolyte Kurili

[StrayRogue]

They do, their ears are better as well. As soon as we pop out of the womb we start decaying to some extent.

[HarmNone]

I remember sitting in the back yard with my parents, other children from the neighborhood and their parents, and watching the fireflies, or watching falling stars. We would all bring lemonade or iced tea, snacks and delicious sweets. It was a time of wonder. Then, my grandmother would tell us old Welsh ghost stories. She was a remarkable story-teller.

Wonderful memories. :)

HarmNone had a beautiful childhood

[GSLeloo]

That is true, about technically we start decaying. We were learning about it in science, how everything is slowly moving towards entropy. Don't remember now what it was... something like they move into chaos and that is what death is. Whatever! Tried to get scientific...

[Kurili]

Oh, pooh! I'd rather explain it as innocent wonder, and yes, more sensitive eyes and ears. Taste too. Darn science! Begone evil science! Outta our childhood memories!

Acolyte Kurili, silly again

[Who me]

After lunch in kindergarten we used to sit in the auditorium. The teachers would usually put on the record player to Michael Jackson or Cyndi Lauper and we'd be allowed to get up on stage and dance till our hearts content.
One day Jeremy asked me to dance and I said no because I embarrassed about what I was wearing (a blue corderoy outfit with chicks and eggs on it) but he dragged me up anyway and kissed me on the lips.
That was my first kiss (cheesy but hey!) and I remember it like it was 5 minutes ago.

[peam]

Fishing with my Dad, no doubt.

Plotting with my cousins at my Grandparent's house. They were unfortunate enough to get stuck with 5 grandsons, four old enough to plot and scheme together.

[HarmNone]

Originally posted by peam
Fishing with my Dad, no doubt.

Plotting with my cousins at my Grandparent's house. They were unfortunate enough to get stuck with 5 grandsons, four old enough to plot and scheme together.

Your grandparents probably could qualify for sainthood, peam. The thought of four plotting boys in the house would give anybody a serious case of hives!

HarmNone itches, for some reason ;)

[peam]

Originally posted by HarmNone
Your grandparents probably could qualify for sainthood, peam.

Yes, they could. For that and tons upon tons of other reasons. I'm thankful every day that I still have ALL of my grandparents around. I can't imagine growing up without them.

[DCSL]

Hm... I have two memories tied for best from my childhood. The first is playing dominos with my Cuban grandfather. He was so freakin' tolerant, he let me win even when there was money on the line. He honed me into the domino-slammin' machine I am today. He was a really sweet, wonderful man and I still miss him alot.

The other one is spending the summer with my four cousins while my mother went to school in Oxford for a semester. One of my cousins, Marisol, was too old for games since she was almost out of high school and we were all under fifteen... so I took her place so we'd have two boys and two girls on each side.. and it was WAR. We'd booby trap each others' rooms with rubberband shooters or wake up in the middle of the night, cover ourselves with black Halloween make-up, and rush into each others' rooms in ambush.