reminiscing

it is my 11th birthday. my closest friends are over at my house,
and i have a cold. at some point i laugh so hard that snot comes shooting out my nose.
disgusting, but ....really really funny at the time. i remember when things like parents and money and clothes didn't matter. i remember when we had the summer off from school and just hung out all day, played hide and go seek until the sun went down and went to the beach almost everyday. summers were the greatest. up until summer jobs were an apparent necessity. i remember thinking that being able to go to the park (that was maybe 30 metres from my back yard) by myself was a huge deal. there are a lot of things i am missing lately. i wish i could be a kid for just 5 more minutes, like the way most people yearn for 5 more minutes in bed. just turn off the light, pull the covers over my head, and play tag in the backyard with the neighbourhood kids.