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| A surreal GIF featuring a character from Animal Crossing dancing with a distorted filter, with the subtitle "No one's around to help." For some strange reason, it evokes nostalgia in me. |
I remember when the school year seemed to take forever. I remember looking ahead at the years I had left in school and dreading it. I remember when my sister and I were both years away from college, hanging out after school at playgrounds. I remember going on adventures with her and her friends, exploring, going on bike rides in town and in the woods, leaves crunching under our wheels and the crisp fall breeze blowing against us. I remember.
Do you?
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| A path in autumn woods. |
Things changed over time. My sister reached high school, and started to do other things. She was busy, and had different friends, and we stopped going around town as much. I got busy, too, getting into choirs and plays. We used to go adventuring with a kid in our neighborhood, but we moved, and now we didn't see him anymore. It just...
Stopped.
And now, time is going faster than ever. School years used to take ages, but now marking periods are flying past at light speed. It feels like only a couple of months ago I got to high school.
My sophomore year is almost over. I'm almost a junior. When did that happen? What happened?
I miss those days, sometimes. Like now. It's a nice day. I have friends to talk with and hang out with, and I really enjoy their company. But, it's not quite the same. My sister's in college now, and my friends live far away from my house, so there's no one to go outside with. Even if there were, it isn't as exciting anymore. And the days are going too quickly to enjoy it. Spring break went by too fast. and finals are coming up, again, even though I feel like i just started sophomore year.
It sounds cheesy, but I wish I could experience those days again. Just one more time. To be younger, more innocent, just adventuring with my sister and her friends, in those woods, with the crispy breeze and the crunchy leaves of fall. In reality, it probably wasn't "adventuring," more just "wandering around." But life today is so much more hectic and stressful. I have lots of responsibilities now. It's all too much, sometimes.
And back then, it wasn't.
Excellent poem - I think we all feel this way. I love when you said you don't remember it stopping because that's so true. It slows and then you just don't do those things anymore.
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