but then we grew old

yesterday i was busy doing classwork when these two kids, a boy and a girl, were busy arguing with each other. eventually their topic came around to "girl conversations", which the boy described as "plans to destroy us". with that, i laughed.

i guess it's not surprising to say that almost everyone my age went through this as a child. "girls" and "cooties" or "germs" would be mentioned in the same breath, and same goes for "boys". touching someone of the opposite gender seems to be the only way of transferring a imaginary disease, and it would be some kind of mad leprosy that not one of your friends would want to make contact with you from then on. such wars would be represented in kids' games such as tag, cops and robbers, or whatnot.

for some reason, i miss those days.

of course that's not to say that i miss feuding with the opposite sex. it's just that i want to go back to the time of childhood games and nonsense. life is too stressful as a teenager (as much as i hate referring to myself as one). it is funny how we wish to be old while we're young and wish to be young when we're old. life is crazy, ain't it?