![]() ![]() ![]() When we are old and failing, it is the memories of childhood that can be summoned most clearly. Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood – the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.- Sylvia Plath The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre ofĬhildhood is like contemplating a beautiful region as one rides backward, one really becomes aware of the beauty at that moment, that very instant, when it begins to vanish. The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. Praise the innocence of childhood soon forgotten.Ĭhildhoods never last. If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. Play is the work of childhood.― Jean Piaget UnknownĪren’t you glad there wasn’t a modern cellphone at every event you attended as a kid? No one wants photographic proof of past mistakes. ![]() Everyone remembers what you did except you. Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.- Adam SandlerĬhildhood is a collection of life’s most precious moments.- AnonymousĬhildhood is like being drunk. And while those bags might hold a few hazy recollections-a diner with a jukebox at the table, being pushed on a swing set, the way it felt to be picked up and spun around-it didn’t seem enough to last a whole lifetime.Ĭhildhood is the best of all the seasons of life, and the longer it lasts with happy memories, the stronger the emotional stability in adulthood.ĭon’t you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever? Childhood memories were like airplane luggage no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags. ![]()
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