Forever Young

My childhood was the most awesome experience I ever had. 

The best even without the existence of i Phone, i Pod, wii, xbox, psp, but only game boy, family computer, brickgame, teks, and chinese garter.

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Patintero, langit-lupa, moro-moro, ten-twenty, tagu-taguan, luksong tinik, luksong baka,sipa and many outdoor games are what kept us busy during summer. It was always a busy street every afternoon. Children playing, mommies having tittle-tattle, and sisters  busy talking about "meteor garden" and some other famous boy band. Me? I was busy picking the best pamato among the pieces of my teks. (The hardest part of the game.) 

Tagu-taguan is what I hate most. Especially when I am the one who's assigned to seek, without knowing my playmates were already home. Funny right? -_-

Patintero is my favorite. Especially if I made it to the last opponent. That time, it was a FULFILLMENT. 

These games made our childhood really fun, but also made our parents mad. 

playful days (1998)

I can still remember how my dad punish me whenever i'm going home really sweaty, dirty and stinky; how he pinch my ear whenever he caught me playing video games and riding on a bike; how he gets angry whenever me and my sister's fighting over stupid things; how my mom calls me "LENIDEEEEEE!!!!!" outside when it's lunch or bath time, how she exaggeratedly scrub my whole body because of the (she thinks) permanent dirt living in my skin; how she scolds me whenever she smells me "Amoy araw ka nanaman!" and how I cry every time I get hit. 

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and now, how it brings smile on my face every time I remember them.

Today, we are living in a world dominated by phones which are smarter than people; and kids who are more conscious about the number of  likes they get rather than their grades. Awful. 

 A lot of us may be wishing to stay as a kid forever, where the only problem is to run around and laugh a lot.

We can still enjoy life, our childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean playtime is. As they say "Age is just a number and young is an attitude." We can all be forever young.