Simple again

People talk about how they wish they could go back to when they were small--the question of Why can't things be as simple as they used to? What they would give for everything to not be so big and grown-up, to not be so bloody complicated.

I understand that. There's nothing about it that doesn't make perfect sense. Hm. I just feel like things weren't that different for me as a child.

I mean, no, I didn't have to worry about meticulous money management, or relationships being more complicated than it seems like they should. But when I was a kid, I still caught a glimpse of the number on my private school tuition check and wondered at the height of it, and I still had to deal with peers giving me hell with, "Well, if he's not your BOYfriend, then what IS he?"

And...I get that the real point of the original question is not that the basic issues were not there, it's just that they were not as complex, or didn't have the same Real Life weight.

But to me, at least, as a child, there was no difference. I was a happy kid, don't get me wrong, but I took the goings on in my life very seriously--and really I don't feel much more perplexed by my complicated issues now than I did by my simple ones then. I mean really, where's the separation? It's still finances, and it's still social pressure. I felt extreme feelings then, I feel serious feelings now.

So...things are OK.

Abrazo