I wish we could stop time...

'take pictures of your childhood room, memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home, remember the footsteps, remember the words said, and your little brother's favourite songs... i just realised that everything i have is someday gonna be gone...... just try to never grow up' - Taylor Swift

                OK, so I'm freaking out. Since when did I reach the age where I'm 16 next year and worrying about exams. Since when did my sister start a proper job, start looking around universities and talking about car insurance.
               That time of innocence and naïvity (if that's a word!) has been and gone for me now. The time when the most of our worries was who to partner with in ballet. The time when we all listened to was busted and s-club 7, instead of skrillex or Eminem  and all us girls owned 'pop princesses' and EVERYONE had a copy of now 63, or whichever one was out at that time. When we played mouse trap and kerplunk instead of COD or some other deathly war game, drunk orange squash instead of alcohol, and most of us coughed and sputtered over the taste and smell of someones cigarette smoke, instead of drooling over it, wondering if they had any spare.
               To me that time of innocence is the best time of our lives, although we'd never believe at the time, because at that age, all we can think about is growing up so that we could be a pop star or a princess.
However, it's the one we often forget. We think we remember everything about it, what our grandma's house looked like and the hill we drive to get our aunt's house, and the silly little games we played to keep ourselves occupied on holiday when our parents were being boring and reading books all day. We think we remember the feeling, but the truth is, it's probably just a projection of what we imagine a child feels like, and how we see a child though our eyes today. Just having fun and asking questions. But what we really must hold onto is the mindset. Because the mindset of a child is the most raw, perfect thing on earth.
Why is it that children end up coming up with amazing ideas that we're always amazed they can think of? Well I'm sure some brain specialist can give you a long, technological answer to that question, involving the chemical reactions and electric signals of the brain, but, call me ridiculous, I like to think there's something more than just chemical reactions to explain something so perfect...

'you won't find faith or hope down a telescope, you won't find heart and soul in the skys, you can break everything down to chemicals, but you can't explain a love like ours' - The Script

                 OK, so I know that quote is actually about love, but it can still relate to this easily!  So basically, I'm freaking out because everyone around me is getting older - way too quickly. But you know that quote 'age is just a number', well this only works if you have this mindset of that child you once were, running around naked in your back garden! This eternal youth on your mind only works if we, at least for a moment, forget society, forget crime and violence, forget the troubles of love between partners and focus on the love for your family and your favorite cuddly toy. As we get older, these bad things that make us miserable that suddenly appear out of nowhere, they're only there to keep our feet on the ground, but so long as you know that, and your feet are firmly on the ground, you can start focusing on the sweeter things in life that make it worthwhile, and brushing away the miserable feelings that difficulty brings our way. Solve the problems and get on with the finer things in life. And never let go of the child once were.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVZ1Qf32NA0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2YXqgZTWu4