Simpler times

Today I was asked a seemingly random question: "What is the strangest thing you believed as a child??

My answer: "I always felt like I could levitate. I could levitate over the house and go on trips around the world, but I knew I had to keep it a secret. So, I never really left the backyard. Those were much simpler times."

i remember those times so well that I cannot seem to separate fact from fiction. Levitation isn't possible, but I know that I've been above my house looking down on everything. I remember being free and unbound by responsibilities and unreasonable pressures.

I never had many friends growing up and no one on my street wanted to play with me; my siblings didn't want me around either. So I spent a lot of my time in my imagination and thinking. I remember trying to create a new lotion out of household products. I wanted to create something that was creamy, richly hydrating but not oily. And then after i did, creating commercials to promote my new product. I also remember creating homemade spreadsheets on paper with the amount of law firm advertisements and their certifications. (I would find the mean, median and mode even before I knew what that was!)

I played with my barbies by myself and created for myself a world where people cared for each other. But I never played with other people. Not because I didn't want to play with people, but because others never wanted to play with me.

I was never "cool" enough. But I didn't mind. I had my own little world. I filled my day with thoughts and traveling to far away places in my books.

Perhaps this is how I was able to levitate to other places around the world. I would dream about flying there and live as a fly on the wall in the books I was reading.

Life was much more simple back then.