I miss running through the soft Ohio grass barefoot, without any worry of rattlesnakes or fire ants.
I miss picking fresh blackberries off of their stems and eating them right there in the woods, feeling the tangy juice explode in my mouth, assaulting my taste buds.
I miss the smell of worms after it rains.
I miss the way that my mom would sit on the front porch on nice days, watching my progress home from the bus stop.
I miss the endless games with my brothers. Tag, Hide and Seek, Around the World...whenever we ran out we would invent a new one.
I miss our families RV, which we would drive all across the country, getting into various mishaps. One time we nearly drove off of a mountain. Another time we ended up in a toxic waste dump. Yet another adventure led us into a cornfield and being threatened at gunpoint by an old farmer in pajamas.
I miss the way my mother would get hysterical when all of the above occurred.
I miss the never-ending Genesis disc's my dad would play on road trips.
I miss TGIF and SNICK.
I miss eating all of the junk food in the world without worrying about calories or exercising.
I miss our dog, Katie, who was the smartest dog we ever had and the only one to ever truly understand fetch.
I miss ice cream nights on hot summer days, and sitting out on the porch to watch the heat lightning.
I miss skiing in the mountains in the deepest of winter with my dad.
I miss going to bed before it's dark outside, with the smell of grass still on my skin.
I miss nights of driving nowhere in particular, just driving because gas was cheap and I was young and had nowhere to go and great company alongside me.
I miss drive-in movies in the rain.
I miss catching lightning bugs, only to let them go after making a wish.
I miss that time when I had nothing holding me back. No preconceived notions of how I "should" behave. It was just me and my emotions and my life and nothing was holding me back.
What do you miss?
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OH man, I was getting so nostalgic this spring :( Thinking about riding our bikes around Mentor before we learned to drive, going to Veterans Park, movies in your basement with chips and dip--- do you remember when we were young and stayed up all night at your place and went for a walk at dawn? lol, the craziness of freshman year at osu... 10000 more things..
When John and I were taking a walk in the park the other day I was thinking about when i was in elementary school, me and my friends were always running around the woods making up games pretending to be in anywhere we wanted to me. I feel like that imagination has just died.