Missing the good old days

May 27, 2022. Friday.

Sometimes you can just think that it's nice to go back to the happy memories that happened in our past. The memories that shaped your childhood. Those memories you will never forget. And especially the things you could do before but you can't do now.

Earlier while I was chilling here outside the house I suddenly remembered the happy memories I had when I was young. It's Friday today and I don't have a class but I still have some requirements to do today but it's not that many so I was able to relax somehow.

This afternoon I go out of the house because the weather was hot here with us again. It's more windy outside our house because there are trees than here inside the house and the electric fans are blown or emitting hot air also.

I sat on the hammock in front of our house and soon I lay down there. A lot of memories flash back as I swung in the hammock. I suddenly remembered the times when we were still playing in front of our house, because the space in front of our house was still spacious because we didn't have any neighbors but now there is also a house in front of our house but still there is enough space in front of the house. I remembered the place we were playing, it was a vacant lot and there was a Santol tree there, in that tree there was also a cradle/swing there so I suddenly remembered it. The cradle on that tree is two, the one is made of wheels (gulong ng malalaking sasakyan) and the other is made of wood itself. My playmates and my second cousins ​​used to play there. Every afternoon when we come home from school (Elementary days) we just changed our clothes (from uniform to house clothes) and go immediately to that tree because that's our meeting place. I also play with my sister because our age gap is only one year, so who are her friends are also my friends, and who are my friends are also her friends because we are only a year apart, and I can say that my sister really looks like my bestfriend. But now it's different, her friends are different from my friends, of course we're old so the people we spend time with are also different.

The cradle I was referring to that was in the santol tree then is gone now, that tree has been cut down and the vacant lot we are playing with has also been fenced off.

After I cradle in the hammock and I felt a bit dizzy I immediately got up. I went to the riverside to get some air. I have already told you that we live near the river. I looked for a shady spot on the dike and sat there. I also suddenly remembered the times that every Saturday and Sunday back then, we were there and catching fish. This time I saw more fish now than before. No one catches or hook fish as much today, unlike when we used to do before. Sometimes we went down to the dike and we dipped our feet in the water while fishing, moreover, when you are closer to the water you can clearly see the fish because the water was still clean then. Now the river I grew up in is different, the water is dirty, you can't go down the dike because its down is muddy and most of all it's full of garbage. And I think that’s also one of the reasons why no one catches fish here in the river nowadays because they know the fish eats dirty also. All you can really do now in the river near us is sat there because it's windy and you can sit or lie dowm because the Dike is wide. I only remembered these memories again because this is the only time I sat for a long time in that river. But this time I was the only one to hang out there, because the other colleagues and friends I used to play with and who were with me to hung out there and hunted fish are not here in this place anymore. I also don't have my fishing rod anymore, I don't know where that went because it's been a while.

And when it got a little hot in the place where I was staying at Dike, I went home already. Maybe I stayed on the hammock for about an hour and stayed by the river for about two hours. I enjoyed watching the fish swimming in the river, it was just fun to watch them and they were able to swim freely because no one was catching them.

And those are just some of the memories I have remembered today. I had so much more fun memories back then that I will never forget. I was able to reminisce for a few hours and I am happy that I was able to go back to the places that build my childhood. I'm just sad that that place looks different now compared to how it looked then. But I'm still happy that somehow I can go back to those places when I want and when I'm free.

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