Back then

Do you remember when we were younger and anything was possible.
When we would walk outside with no shoes and just ignore all of the yelling parents Just to have fun.
When we would make up pointless games and play them for an entire day.
When we would go to the bathroom at school just so that we could talk to our friends.
Wasting an entire summer doing absolutely nothing but loving every second of it.
Building forts out of blankets in the basement just to have and excuse sleeping somewhere else.
Prank calls at night and swimming during the day, we all and act like nothing happened.
I remember the day that my brother played an entire two hours of hide and go seek with a nail in his knee before he told our parents.
Playing beauty parlor and actually cutting every inch off of your friend’s hair.
Dressing up in funny costumes because you thought that when the neighbors saw you that they would think you were cool.
Thinking that when you put your hands over your eyes that no one can see you even though it’s just that you can’t see them.
Hiding in the bathroom with your friend for an entire day because your friend’s dog is sick.
Hiding from the neighbor boys because they had cooties and then hanging out the Entire day the next day and pretending that nothing ever happened.
The time when no one got yelled at for not doing what they were supposed to.
When fun was the only thing on our minds.
When we would go from house to house to house all day without anyone caring or parents being worried.
No phones to bug us the whole day.
Swimming through the weeds and to the island just so that we could stand on the rocks and watch the carp fight for food.
Playing pirate and making your friends walk across the fallen tree in that water and pretending it was a plank, then when you friend falls off and into the water you all jump with him.
Hanging upside down from a tree branch in your secret club down the street, that you later find is a dump.
That you later find that life is more then care free days in the sun.
That you later find that life is diffrent now.
That you later find that you dont have a choice to go through time or not, time goes by and then days and month and before you know it, years but you never had a choice. you were forced to do it.
Forced to live and forced to go through every day. not being able to pause time or stop in your tracks for a break.
When the timmer rings in the morrning you get up, you have to, you eaither have to go to school or a job.
No one can survive in this world without them so we have to go.
Then you geet home and eat, another trick of survival.
Next you do your homework or work that you are forced to get done.
Life is not full of dicisions.
We are forced to live it.
We are foreced to do what our parents say (even though you dont agree with them even one percent of the time).
Forced to live where your parents tell you for 18 long years.
Forced to go to bed with out a meal and a starving stomach if thats what it takes to get throuh your life.
Six more years.
Only six more.