11:15am
14/5/2024, Tuesday-
when i was much, much younger, my parents once took me to a cabin in the woods. the sun shone down brightly, but was obscured by the dense roof of trees above, just speckled beams of sunlight shining down in a few spots. the leaves crunched under my shoes, and i collected random sticks i thought looked cool. it is a memory of simpler times, when my biggest fear was getting caught in quicksand. now a lot has changed, and the girl who shrieked in laughter when her dad spun her in the air is gone, but I still think of her, of myself, of who I was, and who I lost. all of them are the same person, yet so vastly different. i wish i could return to the girl I was back then, or simply relive that memory, one more time. now I'm far too big for my dad to lift, and his back gives out sometimes when he does something strenuous. i wish i could go back to then, a time and life far, far more simple.
