Childhood Notions

Childhood Notions

Why do we allow ourselves to fall into the depths of our minds? So deep in our minds we lose sight of reality. Fantasy, childhood ideas, a safe haven in our mind that allows us to forget about reality for a brief moment?

You know the area where we speculated so many years ago how our lives would have been, who we would have married, how many children we would have had, the woman staying at home to take care of the children, having dinner on the table for your husband when he came through the door. I suppose that is its to similar to the Beavers that we watched on the boob tube. The parents in love, maintaining stable relationships for years. Money never seemed to be an issue, or so it seemed.

Then something happens to snap us back into reality, back to the daily grind trying to muddle through life still trying to figure out what will happen next.Why did our plans, dreams and hopes fade away, what sent us on a detour to a whole new destination, one we would have never chosen, it wasn’t part of our plan we dreamt up in our minds, years later to only find ourselves questioning why? How and when did my life happen and where was I the entire time my life was transpiring? Ah, to be a child again, what positive, hopeful little creatures we once were…