Close Your Eyes and Go Back

My lovely roomie from last year had this in her AIM profile once. I don't know if she wrote it or if she got it from somewhere else, but I copied it anyway. Either way, thank you Mallory. I really enjoyed this..

Close your eyes..and go back..
before the Internet or AIM
before Playstation2
before the 5 hours of homework you put off every night..
Before we got our hearts broken....

I'm talkin bout hide & go seek at dusk.
Red light, Green light.
playing kickball until your porch light came on.
Mother May I?..Red Rover..Four Square.
Hula Hoops, running through the sprinkler-
Happy Meals
watchin Saturday morning cartoons--like Hey Arnold & Doug
or what about Legends of the Hidden Temple, Double Dare
& Are You Afraid Of The Dark?

Who could forget Snick?
or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Christmas morning
Your first day of school,
climbing trees...getting ice cream off the ice cream truck
a million mosquito bites & sticky fingers...
jumpin on the bed..
running till ur outa breath...
laughing so hard your stomach hurt...
being tired from playin all day..
your first crush;
Rainy days at school meant playing " 7-up" in the classroom
remember that?

..I'm not finished yet..

I wanna go back to the time when..
Decisions were made by going "eeny meeny miny moe"
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming "do over!"
"Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest
it wasnt odd to have two or three "best" friends
Being old, referred to anyone over 20
The worst thing u could catch from the opposite sex was cooties
Scrapes & Bruises were kissed & made better
Abilities were discovered because of a "double-dog-dare"

If u can remember these ...then u have lived.