This is for my pillars, my builders, and the people who need it.
“Life used to be fun”. It’s something I always heard when talking about childhood memories or when people left a message on some random 2000s nostalgia video. “Life used to be fun”. It is a powerful phrase to say and so bold.
“Life used to be fun? Yes, it used to.
When we were kids, we saw the world with different eyes, joyful, gullible, and most of all hopeful of the dreams we wanted to materialize. As kids, we wanted to be in helpful or creative jobs. For example, Frances wanted to be a teacher and a baker who baked the most wonderful, famous cakes that queens and lords used to buy. Victor wanted to be a Farmer while discovering new groups and classification of dinosaurs as a paleontologist. Binh wanted to be a historian who wrote the most amazing and intriguing books while traveling around the world. Kevin wanted to be a Fireman while walking on the moon like an astronaut. I wanted to be a writer who writes the most astonishing books ever, while saving a dog’s life as a veterinarian.
Now, as grown-ups, we see dreams as merely a part of development. At the same time, hope is an extinct creature. We stop looking for what brings joy to our souls. Diminishing what builds us as kids. A movie about a cat in the hat, a collection of Barbies that is there to be treasured, or that memory of the Macy’s balloons that your parents take you to see with your brothers on Christmas. I remember being happy and having fun with my brothers growing up, racing downhill on a mighty steel Tonka dump truck. Watching movies in the living room and putting our mattresses on the floor just in case we fall asleep. Going to the theaters to see the new robot movie. I do love how happy I was and how fun everything was. Remembering those days gives me some kind of ease, a sense of losing something I will never regain.
“Life used to be fun”. It’s funny how now we encase ourselves in a pristine black, gray, white, and full of bad news box we live in, not having the bit of essence that nurtures us, just being another pawn in the construction of society. Losing our days in the vast ocean of fast-paced jobs or what the world would think. Walking around with no determined finish line. It’s sad that we have become just a carcass of what we were.
“Life used to be fun.” Life never lost the fun in it. We lose what makes us have fun, like watching a movie because it’s funny, or building with Legos because of what the other grown-ups will think. Eating that candy because I’m on a diet. Losing interest in a hobby because it is childish. So be it, let it be childish. Watch that movie, buy that candy, buy that Lego. Discover new things about you. Make yourself happy again, make “life fun as you did as a kid.”
Go out and connect with what makes you, you. Because tomorrow… tomorrow doesn’t exist; it is today you have to live.
This was written by our contributing writer, Miranda Joel.
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