Growing Up...

I keep thinkin back to when I was younger between the ages of 5-13 and wonder what happened to the friends I had in the neighborhood. I mean, I don't talk to any of them but a few of them are my Facebook friends. Ok well I do keep tabs on them. If they update something I am always nosy enough to go and see what is new in their lives. In a way I just want to be a part of it cause it has been so long since I even hung out with them or even seen them face to face. Is it odd that I do think of them still and wish that I was still as close with them as I was when I was back then?

I wish there was a way to go back and just relive those moments with all of them again. Backyard football, The Jungle House, playing in Mrs. Cushing's garden, our long walks to Benjamin Store for snacks, even just riding bikes or rollerblading with all of them on Winesap Ct. I miss all of that. I wish I could call a neighborhood reunion haha.

I used to get up extra early for school to go over my friend Lujain's house. She lived across the street and down a few houses... she was closest to the bus stop. But I used to go over there and just hangout with her and her family. I remember Lujain would make herself toast almost every morning with jam/jelly... and as she did that I would be dancing with her Grand Ma-Ma! I loved that little old lady! Understand... Lujain and her family are Muslim (with Islam Religion) so the women are of smaller frame, just cute size haha. I really hope that's not offensive cause I'm not tryin to be if it comes off that way. I just love her family! But anyways... it's just those little things that I never thought would be in my head still so many years later and still bring back all the feelings from then.

I wouldn't mind sitting here and typing about every individual person in the neighborhood that I was friends with but I have a few issues about doing that. 1... it would be waaaaaay too much for a blog posting. I know I could write a book about it if I really wanted to. 2... I don't feel like writing all of that lol and 3... I don't think yall would enjoy it as much as I would haha But yall probably aren't enjoying yourselves right now anyways. :P

 So please... enjoy the little moments in life. Even if you don't think it's a big deal to you at the time. Make every moment count. That is something I have learned a while back and since then... I haven't regretted anything.

[Rest In Peace Grand Ma-Ma]