Unbreakable Old Times

“Time is gold.” A popular yet simple saying that talks about treasuring each time you used to have. One of the best examples of this is how we cherished our childhood time. Childhood is the world of wonder or of fairy-tale, as if conception woke shiningly out of the dark, all original and bewildering. Childhood is one of the growing stages in man's life. There is a patch in every childhood, a delighted place where nights are brighter, the wind is cooler, and the sunrise more sweet-scented than ever again. We all developed our skills or abilities through the time we treasured when we were a child.

As we were a child, we only sometimes just eat, drink, sleep and play. We cried, we laughed, we got sick, and we learned with our playmates and friends. We will never forget our childhood days especially when our playmates or friends are there. They sometimes go to your house and say, “Ui, tara laro na tayo bilis! Hintayin kita dito, ah.” We will go to our parents and please them and say, “Pwede po ba ako lumabas para maglaro?” And we were always so happy when our parents say, “Sure.” We do go to the playground rapidly and plays until the moon shines above.
Playground, when we were a kid, is our second home. There we can find the slide, the monkey bars, the see-saw, new friends, etc. We always enjoy playing there. And when we were exhausted, our parents will scold us and also, they will make ourselves feel fresh again. We cannot avoid our untidiness while we were playing. Childhood is free from cares. We always feel like we have our freedom in whatever we want to do and whenever we don’t have, we always cry. We always depend on our playmates because without them, we would not have so much fun.
My playmates, when I was a kid, were really funny. They always make me happy. I already think of them as my sibling not already as my playmate. They feel home when they stay at our home and I feel home when I were in their home. We always share foods without any regrets. They were my best friends at our place. We seldom fight because happiness protects us. You can leave through life and existence and create new friends every day practically, but there will never have any replacement for those friendships we built of childhood that survives into grown-up years. They will remain in our minds together with the memories we built.
When we were playing, no gadgets will be found, only ourselves, our playmates and our toys. That’s how simple we are, unlike what the kids are playing today. Simple toys like cars and dolls can already make us happy. We do always feel that our toys are real things. But not only toys can make us happy. With our playmates, we always play seldom games and pranks in the street that we enjoy so much. When we do not want to play in playground, there we will play tagu-taguan, patintero, tumbang preso, etc. outside our houses. But I, when I was a kid, cannot forget bahay-bahayan. We always assign who is the mother, the father, the daughter or the son. And we always say, “Kunwari ito yung kusina (but in reality, it’s just in a tricycle) tapos ito yung kwarto (the backride of the tricycle).” It’s really funny when I recall some games I used to play with my playmates.
But today, as I mature up, I found myself thinking why these things cannot happen again? Why my life today differs from before? Maybe things changes every time and we have our own thoughts now. Maybe they already have their own lives to be played and act. We should now learn independence and act like a person now, not already as a kid. Yes, we still talk with each other but we cannot play the games we used to play before. Sad but very true.
Maybe the time makes us separate now. We maybe should pleasure each time we can to fulfill our own dreams individually. We have our own dreams now unlike before who’re our dreams is about being happy every day. If you carry your childhood with you, you will never become older. Having the best childhood is the luckiest thing that can happen in your life. Even time separates us from them now, there are still chances that we can talk from them but not like before. There is always one split second in our childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. But now, the time of our future continually comes in. There will never be more than the happiness when I was a kid because today, more responsibilities and more acts must be taken so we can make our future time productive. The memory of good days makes me happier today.