“Awakening Your Inner Kid at Heart”

Imagine that you’re in your house, maybe sitting on your family’s worn-out couch in the living room. You’re engrossed with whatever’s on your laptop, even switching to your phone from time to time. While browsing just through anything in the internet, you suddenly hear the doorbell. Of course, you grumble in annoyance as you have to get up to open the gate. Forced to entertain whoever’s outside, you get up from the couch and make your way to check on it. You open your front gate, and you’re surprised as you see who is outside. It’s actually your seven-year-old self in the flesh. You only stand by the gate, mouth wide-open in bewilderment, when your seven-year-old self asks you, “What do you miss most when you were my age?”

It really seems out of the ordinary and highly impossible for that certain situation to come true but if that really happened to you right now, what would you reply to that question?

There are surely many things to miss and ponder upon whenever you look back at your childhood memories. It definitely serves as a one big slap on nostalgia’s face when you think about the sweet life of being a kid once, most especially all the fun memories attached to this certain stage. Safe to say, life was a lot easier when the hardest decision in life was picking your favorite cartoon character.

Of course, through the course of time, growing up is inevitable, as well as changes in every generation. If you compare the way kids behave and spend their leisure time before to kids now, there is certainly a big difference. Kids before usually like being under the sun, just playing with friends, and don’t care if they get smothered in dirt, whereas kids nowadays are more “high-tech” and are slowly growing fond of getting their noses in different kinds of gadgets. However, this is not to generalize all kids of today’s generation as like this, it’s just that this is the common scene that usually sticks out about them. Aside from this, they also differ in what they have grown into, like television cartoons, music, games, and trends.

But this is not to say that the youth before is better than today’s. Taking the youth before and looking at them now, they also have grown into something much different than what they were back then. The only case with them is that they experienced something that the young ones of today can’t experience now. It’s actually not a battle of “Whose generation was better?” It’s all just because of one thing – growing up in a somewhat different time zone.

This is why the battling of whose generation is better is not even necessary. Isn’t it nicer to just look back to the memories, instead of imposing that what you grew up with is better than theirs?

It’s actually really enjoyable tickling your inner kid at heart, not just to make you nostalgic, but to remind that there are certain things in your generation that molded you into what you are now – and also simply, to remind you of the memories that made you really happy being a kid.

After all, remembering our youth is definitely something we will never grow old from.

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