The Good Ol’ Days by Arnav Bhardwaj

I believe that the good old days are only able to be seen once you are passed them.

As a kid, every child desires to grow up. There is something about being in elementary school that just makes it seem uncool at the time. Because of this most, kids don’t enjoy their lives in the moment and only seem to ponder on their future.

But, as people grow reaching higher level schooling such as middle school, high school, and beyond the same thoughts always seem to arise the ones of them missing the “good ol’ days.” The days where there were no thoughts about money, love, or what life was to become it was all about what was going on around you and that was it, that was life.

Then, there comes realization of how life along with everything you knew before has passed in a blink of an eye. None of the situations we imagined as children emerge leaving us perplexed thinking that we had been lied to our whole lives. However, everyone knows this is not the truth as we were young and did not know any better than what we had seen on TV and in movies. Even the older kids would make their lives seem like a fairy tale with all these amazing stories that would get all the little kids excited and anxious for what was to come. So I guess you could say we were misled to an extent, but I think it was protection.

Unfortunately though these are all things we learned a little too late causing us to miss out on what we did have, the memories that will last us a lifetime, the ones that make a person who they really are. Obviously we can see all this now because it is easy to do, however in the moment it becomes much more difficult as all the meaningless worries seem life threatening, stopping us from being able to see the positives and what we’ll remember about that time 20 years later.

Now you can see that it’s not that easy to “live in the moment,” when there are always things in the way. I think I have already figured out the true meaning of the good old days, they are the moments when there was nothing stopping me from seeing the good, the moments that were truly meant to be.