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When we are children we tend to look forward ten, fifteen even twenty years at a time. We can't wait until the day we get to make our own decisions without someone telling us no or that we aren't old enough. What we often fail to realize is that we have the best life as kids and once we reach adulthood we are on our own without someone there to catch us. We look back and miss our childhood as we go through our days with the same boring routines. We miss the freedom that we had to enjoy life without having to think about what we were doing.

As children we had school, homework, housework and friends. The summer vacation was guaranteed unless we got stuck at summer school or ended up grounded for doing something we shouldn't have been doing in the first place. We never worried about the bills or where clothing and meals came from. We didn't know what things cost, all we knew was that we had them and didn't have to do anything for them.

We look back on our youth as adults and miss that sense of freedom we once had. While we complained about school and appointments we had no control over we had all of our bills paid for us leaving us little to worry about. While we wished that we could make our own decisions we liked not having the responsibility of having to all the time. There are those dances, parties and just being a kid that we miss.

Now that we are adults we must find our own way in the world. When we have our own children we truly understand how much our parents worried about us as we refused to listen. Now as we watch our children and the responsibilities we have we want to return to the days of no responsibility. It is up to us to make the decisions and up to us to deal with the consequences of those decisions. Some days that responsibility overwhelms us so much we seek out items that take us back to our childhood days.

We see our children with their grandparents and long for our grandparents that have long since passed away. We want the innocent that childhood brings allowing us to believe in immortality and super heroes flying in to save the day. As we loose the innocent belief in living forever we begin to take fewer risks and find ourselves in a daily routine that often bores us to tears.

We got to play for hours and still it was never long enough but now we would give anything for those interrupted play times. We would even love to be sitting at the table in trouble for not eating our vegetables or crying because we fell off our bicycles. While we wished to grow up most of us find out that no matter how tight of a reign our parents had on us we grew up too fast.

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