When free time invades, what can one do but reminise?
My memory took me on a journey to a decade back. Ah, a simpler time.
Life then:
School usually ends around 2. You stay back abt 15 minutes after to chill with friends. Then everyone parts. You wait for the sight of the car to roll into view as you check out the upper secondary people and look at them with respect and anticipation at being one, the following year. If you're lucky, then the parents cancel on you therefore permitting another extra 20 minutes of chat with a chum as you make your way home. Once home, a nice long shower releases the day's tension of class tests, silly squabbles, heartbroken crushes.
You have a nice snack and unpack your bag. You finish up your homework and realise it's already dinner time. Or rather family time. Everybody shuffles to the dining room and have dinner and talk about their day. You say something about a boy in your school and everybody laughs coz you are the youngest and hence experiencing having a crush for the first time. Dinner is done and you saunter into the living room to watch something on tv for a while. Then you shuffle upstairs, pack your bag and see if you can steal your sister's awesome new jacket for the next day's computer lab lesson. You go through your upcoming 'events' in your head. There really aren't a lot. Your only worry is who to work with for your History project.
You wonder if you should call a friend or finish your library book about some silly kid in high school whom everyone teases because he's tall. You decide a 15-minute chat with your best friend sounds more inviting. You both talk and you tell her about the thing someone in class said during 5th period English. You both laugh and realise you were both egging to comment at that time. You both wish each other sweet dreams and you hang up and trot to your room. Before you know it, you're on your bed and off to snoozeville. And soon, waking up again to begin another school day filled with learning, fun and friends.
Ah, the simple simple time of life. From there it was downhill all the way. Now life is just filled with worries....about the near future, if you've chosen the right path in life, if you'll ever see a certain person, will you be the only one left standing as people around you move on to higher, better positions, will you get a job that'll be something you enjoy and pays the bills, if you'll die an alcoholic or be fancy and die in a car crash by 37, if loneliness will be your best friend till death makes a claim on you.........The instability of it all is enough to suffocate and choke.
My memory took me on a journey to a decade back. Ah, a simpler time.
Life then:
School usually ends around 2. You stay back abt 15 minutes after to chill with friends. Then everyone parts. You wait for the sight of the car to roll into view as you check out the upper secondary people and look at them with respect and anticipation at being one, the following year. If you're lucky, then the parents cancel on you therefore permitting another extra 20 minutes of chat with a chum as you make your way home. Once home, a nice long shower releases the day's tension of class tests, silly squabbles, heartbroken crushes.
You have a nice snack and unpack your bag. You finish up your homework and realise it's already dinner time. Or rather family time. Everybody shuffles to the dining room and have dinner and talk about their day. You say something about a boy in your school and everybody laughs coz you are the youngest and hence experiencing having a crush for the first time. Dinner is done and you saunter into the living room to watch something on tv for a while. Then you shuffle upstairs, pack your bag and see if you can steal your sister's awesome new jacket for the next day's computer lab lesson. You go through your upcoming 'events' in your head. There really aren't a lot. Your only worry is who to work with for your History project.
You wonder if you should call a friend or finish your library book about some silly kid in high school whom everyone teases because he's tall. You decide a 15-minute chat with your best friend sounds more inviting. You both talk and you tell her about the thing someone in class said during 5th period English. You both laugh and realise you were both egging to comment at that time. You both wish each other sweet dreams and you hang up and trot to your room. Before you know it, you're on your bed and off to snoozeville. And soon, waking up again to begin another school day filled with learning, fun and friends.
Ah, the simple simple time of life. From there it was downhill all the way. Now life is just filled with worries....about the near future, if you've chosen the right path in life, if you'll ever see a certain person, will you be the only one left standing as people around you move on to higher, better positions, will you get a job that'll be something you enjoy and pays the bills, if you'll die an alcoholic or be fancy and die in a car crash by 37, if loneliness will be your best friend till death makes a claim on you.........The instability of it all is enough to suffocate and choke.
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