Memory bank

The last time i wrote was in 2011. It's been a little while but i got some inspiration when i woke up this morning. 
I started thinking about a friend of mine who got something she had been praying for, for a few years. i was overwhelmed with emotion as i thought about the afternoon she called me with the good news. This led me to thinking about other moments in my life when i was filled with pure joy. I kept going back to my childhood. Random memories of playing in the rain and getting muddy from head to toe, visiting my 80+ year old great grandma in the village who would wake up every morning and make us some kind of breakfast. Riding my uncle's motorcycle for the first time at age 7 and crying the whole way because i was convinced i would fall off and die, walking around convinced i would marry my primary school crush and just living with reckless abandon...the list goes on. 
These memories were created way before life robbed me of innocence. During a time when fear was running away from the neighborhood german sherpard and worry was hoping your mom didn't find out about your crush. I find myself getting lost in these memories from time to time and wishing i could go back to those days to experience that kind of joy even if only for a nanosecond. Granted, my childhood was far from picture perfect but at the same time it was to me and to everyone around me. Of course i didn't appreciate it at the time because what does an 8 year old know about life?
I wish to create some of those lasting memories. Memories which i will look back 10 years from now and say "damn, these were the best years of my life". Thankfully, I am surrounded by the best friends and family i could truly wish for and these memories are bound to happen. 
When someone dies, you hear people say "life is short" "live for today" and all that stuff thats supposed to make you feel appreciative of the present. Many of us never really take the chance. We never really hold on to this fragile gift of life we have been given and time goes by and before you know it, you are a few years older than you realized and start asking yourself "where did time go"? I want to make more deposits in my memory bank and experience the joy i once felt at that tender age...


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