Happy Days

There was a time of grass and sun. I sat unfeathered by life's hiccups. Looking back things always seem more simple. Elementary school becomes a fantastical escape from the problems of your current days. You forget the homework and the little things that made you think you led the hardest life there ever was. I realized how good I had it when I grew older. I still got caught up in stressing over little things but I made conscious desicions to stop, step back and breathe in what I was experiencing. I knew that the hardest days were yet to come and that I should enjoy the time I had in college. This outlook probably didn't help in my motivation or my grade point average, but I knew the time I had was limited. I figured I would have as much fun as I could so that later I would be able to buckle down and work for the rest of my life. The real world was always approaching but I never let it encroach on my youthful utopia. The days of grass and sun, lounging in parks and listening to saxophones practicing beneath the stars. Breathing in deeply, feeling like no earthly worries can tie down a spirit floating so happily. There was a certain feeling, the one that you get the morning of a paper being due. I would stand outside the class and ask someone to turn in my paper for me. I never went to class the day a paper was due, I always figured I had put in my time for that class the night before, plus they never said anything important the day a paper was due, did they? The feeling came to me when I was skateboarding away beaming and gliding down the street. The sun was out, the campus green, the weight of the world just released from your shoulders, there is no feeling like it. The day unplanned, the possibilities endless, having your friends all around, able to just take a day off and sit by a pond, relaxing and soaking up these carefree times. Now we all know they weren't really care free and that there was class and papers, finals and drama; but was it really anything that you would not want to go through again?