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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: HolyCount on 22 March 2011, 15:57:48
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Found this on t'internet and was moved ....
I want to be six again. I want to go to a coffee shop and think it's the best place in the world to eat. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make waves with rocks. I want to think Smarties are better than money 'cause you can eat them. I want to play football during play time and stay up on long summer evenings. I long for the days when life was simple. When all you knew were your colours, the times tables and simple nursery rhymes, but it didn't bother you because you didn't know what you didn't know, and you didn't care.
I want to go to infant school and have milk time, play time, nap time, and home time. I want to be happy because I don't know what should make me upset. I want to think the world is fair, and everyone in it is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. Sometime, while I was getting older, I learned too much. I learned of nuclear weapons, prejudice, starving and abused kids, lies, unhappy marriages, illness, pain and mortality.
I want to be six again. I want to think that everyone, including myself, will live forever because I didn't have a concept of death. I want to be oblivious to the complexity of life, and be overly excited by the little things again. I want TV to be something I watch for fun, not something I use for escape from the things I should be doing. I want to live knowing the little things I find exciting will always make me as happy as when I first learned them.....I want to be six again.
I remember not seeing the world as a whole, but rather being aware of only the things that directly concerned me. Taunton was my world, Henlade and Wellington were foreign countries. I want to be naive enough to think that if I'm happy, so is everyone else. I want to go down to the beach and think only of the sand beneath my feet, the crabs and whelks in the rock pools and the possibility of finding that blue piece of sea glass I'm looking for. I want to spend my afternoons climbing trees and picking blackberries, being picked up by the police on my way to Wellington on my little three wheeler, letting the grown ups worry about time, the dentist, and how to find the money to fix the old car.
I want to wonder what I'll do when I grow up, and what I'll be, who I'll be, and not worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work out. I want that time back. I want to use it now as an escape, so that when my computer crashes, or I have a mountain of bills, a few depressed friends, or a fight with the Mrs , or bitter sweet memories of times gone by, or second thoughts about so many things, I can travel back, and build a snowman, without thinking about anything except whether the snow sticks together, and what I can possibly use for the snowman's mouth.
I want to be six again, especially now, as Summer approaches. I want to expect nothing except long sunny days. No terrorism, no fears, no worries. No unemployment or job worries, no taking care of ailing, elderly parents, no homeless in the streets. No aching joints or blurred vision, just the joy of lazy summer days and meeting with friends to share what we have.
I want to be six again.
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Very good, and true! :y :y :y :y :y :y
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With you there H C those were the days,
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Excellent HC.... :y
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Ah yes, I'd love to be 6 again! I think that might actually be before it all started going downhill (at about .. age 9). So many things I wouldn't know, if I was 6. It'd be bliss.
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Yes, that was a refreshingly nice piece H. :y
On reflection though, I wouldn't like to be that age again as I was a distinctly odd wee bugger who had the nagging feeling that he would grow up to become a distinctly odd big bugger. :-?
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I would'nt want to be six again.
My early childhood was pretty miserable and I have no wish to repeat it.
I would give anything to be 11 again though....because that's when I started secondary school.
Unfortunatly I spent my entire secondary education messing around, not taking classes seriously and not listening to teachers.
I was one of those kid's that hated school, was'nt interested in learning anything and was constantly being suspended due to my behaviour towards other pupils and teachers.
The end result of which is that I left school with no qualifications and have always been stuck in dead end jobs that pay crappy money where your working all the hours God sends just to survive.
I wish I could go back in time.
I would get all of my G.C.S.E'S, go on to college and then on to university to study to become a lawer or a doctor or something similar.
I would keep my head in my books and not up my arse.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing :-/ :-/ :-/
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing :-/ :-/ :-/
Isn't it. I'm just the other way 'round to you - early childhood was OK (from what I can remember), but after age 9 it sucked balls.
And now.. I'd dearly love to be rid of the mental image of my ex with the other guy she 'slept' with (of which I got quite a graphic account, long story) .. which appears in my mind whenever the subject of women comes up, thus neatly breaking my spirit and leaving me incapable of being with anyone else. So yeah, age 6 sounds perfect.
'could be worse, I suppose. We could have all been swept away by a giant wave - some days that's harder to remember than others, though, eh!
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I would'nt want to be six again.
My early childhood was pretty miserable and I have no wish to repeat it.
I would give anything to be 11 again though....because that's when I started secondary school.
Unfortunatly I spent my entire secondary education messing around, not taking classes seriously and not listening to teachers.
I was one of those kid's that hated school, was'nt interested in learning anything and was constantly being suspended due to my behaviour towards other pupils and teachers.
The end result of which is that I left school with no qualifications and have always been stuck in dead end jobs that pay crappy money where your working all the hours God sends just to survive.
I wish I could go back in time.
I would get all of my G.C.S.E'S, go on to college and then on to university to study to become a lawer or a doctor or something similar.
I would keep my head in my books and not up my arse.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing :-/ :-/ :-/
I actually found that quite moving Fudgee - well posted. :y
I would keep my head in my books and not up my arse.
Very sound advice indeed. 8-) :y
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I would keep my head in my books and not up my arse.
Oh, yes - and it's never too late to go back to school! (It just gets harder.. but worthwhile, so people tell me)
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that was a real nice piece HC.
however do you remember being that age..... you think it was care free but yu were as stressed then if you couldnt get a new ninja turtle toy as you would be now if your house was repossessed.
and you cant drink beer or watch porn :)
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That's 100% true. Things were so much better when we were young :(
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That's beautiful mate & so true. I'm nearly 48 so i was 6 in 1969. All i cared about then was my bike & toy cars & things hav'nt really changed much today.
I still collect the old corgi/dinky/matchbox cars i used to play with, drive a 1966 Cortina & listen to the same music my Mum used dance round the kitchen to..in fact she still does!!! :y 8-) Guy.
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that was a real nice piece HC.
however do you remember being that age..... you think it was care free but yu were as stressed then if you couldnt get a new ninja turtle toy as you would be now if your house was repossessed.
and you cant drink beer or watch porn :)
Couple of good points there Webby -- but when I was 6 they hadn't invented ninja turtles ( thank God!)
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Very poinient H.C. :y
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Very poinient H.C. :y
I've heard you have a mental age of six, Tony. ;D
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Re: To be Six again
Reply #13 - Today at 19:02 Webby the Bear wrote Today at 18:26:
that was a real nice piece HC.
however do you remember being that age..... you think it was care free but yu were as stressed then if you couldnt get a new ninja turtle toy as you would be now if your house was repossessed.
and you cant drink beer or watch porn
Couple of good points there Webby -- but when I was 6 they hadn't invented ninja turtles ( thank God!)
haha :y i bloody loved the turtles. i remember hearing about kids getting stuck down drains cos they wanted to find/be like the turtles ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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very apt HC :y The realities of life are harsh and I know Im getting old when I start worrying about what sort of world it'll be when my youngest grows up. When I was 6 I felt pretty much as your quote says. I had a happy childhood but its like living in a cosy naive makebelieve bubble because things werent really so different back then than they are now and a lot of children had harsh lives and the world was still a frightening place for very many people. Just that we lucky few were cushioned from it. Nice sentiments though that brought back memories. :y