+4,011 I remember when getting high meant swinging at the playground, The worst thing you could get from boys was cooties, Mom was your hero and Dad was superman, Your worst enemies were your siblings, Race issues were who ran the fastest, War was a card game, life was simple and carefree, but what i remember most... ...was wanting to grow up. amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Oh, if we only knew...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

(emo<3): sooo true. so many things would have changed if we knew... i read this somwhere else as well but it had more to it: lollipops turn into cigarrettes, the innocent ones become the sluts, homework goes in the trash, mobile phones are being used in class, detention becomes suspension, soda turns into vodka, bikes become cars, kisses turn into sex, remember when getting high meant swinging on the playground? when protection meatn you were wearing a helmet?when the worst thing you could get from a boy was cooties? dad's shoulders were the highest place on earth and mum was your hero? your worst enemies were your siblings? race issues were about who rant he fastest? war was only a card game and the only drug you knew was cough medicine? wearing a skirt didn't make you a slut? the most pain you felt was when you skinned your knee? and goodbyes meant only until tomorrow? and we couldn't wait to grow up?" you are soooo right. if only we knew!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i love this poem. Its been on my facebook forever

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I love this. :)

by Anonymous 14 years ago

this is so true, i love it

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Oh how I miss those times. =)

by Anonymous 14 years ago

This is one of the best posts ive read in AGES!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

facebook :D

by Anonymous 14 years ago

wrong answer but feel free to try again some other time

by Anonymous 14 years ago

wow...way to be totally un-original. Its pretty cute though, and even if I've seen it a million other times, ill give you credit (:

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I WANT TO BE SEVEN AGAIN! Why won't anybody invent the time machine already?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I just wouldn't want to go through school again

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Why not go through elementary again? It's all simple equations and some long division. Big deal.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Middle school kinda sucked though

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Back then, the stuff i'm taking as a freshman in the Honor's system makes me wish i can go back to middle school.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

ha yeah that is true. That is why I went through high school taking a few honors, but not the full deal. =]

by Anonymous 14 years ago

and yet your name is bookfreak? w00t i'm taking all honors next year cause i'm AZN!!!! (: yeah. watch me die.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

sounds pathetic, but in the mood I'm in now this made me cry, but sort of a good cry if you get what I mean?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

yeah I think I know what you mean. You cry cause all of the happy memories and stuff. [or at least that's how I see it]

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I actually don't Hannah but ok. Just wish I could be forever young.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That song is just amazing... Original Alphaville, not the Jay-Z crap.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

THANK YOU someone else who likes the original song better!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

This is a really zupar sweet post. *faves*

by Anonymous 14 years ago

thats bitter -sweet and brings tears to my eyes

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i never thought my parents were supper heros and i never looked up to them.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Supper Heroes, quite like Dinner Heroes or more like Brunch Heroes?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Nothing to do with the post, but I think your screen name is AWESOME. I hail your awesome mind :)

by Anonymous 14 years ago

wow.... that just make me cry :'( I wish life could still be that easy

by Anonymous 14 years ago

this is the fourth time i've read this and the fourth time i've cried...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

blacks run faster. that is the race issue.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Best post on this site.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Sooo so true

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i do miss the innocence of childhood, but i like the knowledge, independance, and freedom that comes with being older

by Anonymous 14 years ago

you have a point there...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Um excuse me but all you teenagers who are complaining about how life isnt "simple" anymore.. Remember when you had enough to eat everyday? Remember when you didnt have to worry about credit card bills, and when your worst problem was that your friend was mad at your, or your crush didn't "like" you back? You didn't think about whether or not you would lose your house. You felt like you could do anything with your future, and you spent your days either learning something new or hanging out with your friend. Your life is simple too, so shut up.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I hate to say this, but your theory makes sense.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i do very much understand what you mean, but i think you shouldnt be so harsh. you we're probabally the exact same way, and these things all applyed to you in you're teen years

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I am a teenager.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

oh. my badd. sorry:/

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yes, it is simple in that way. But personally, the way I see it, is that we are more aware of the world and how it is. We now see killings, drugs and rape. We now are part of that world, instead of when we were a kid. Kids live in their own world and are so lucky to be unaware. To me, now seeing all this really isn't so simple. But thats just me so...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

We are protected from it, its only when we go looking for that stuff that we are a part of it.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

In theory. It still makes it harder to go on when you hear on the news that a boy was on his way home when some crazy guy decapitated him on the bus. All I meant was, when you’re a kid, you don't realize the world on how it is. You see everything and only what you want, in your own imagination, and from what I get from this poem is that, well we can't anymore, no matter how much we want to. We have to acknowledge the uglier parts of the world, which eventually, corrupts our minds and makes everything a little more hard. Really, the world was just a whole lot more simple when we were still ignorant of death, hunger and poverty. And, besides, not everyone worries about if that guy likes them, or if they look ugly that day. Some Teens still have a freaking hard life. Sorry if this is making no sense; I'm not the best at explaining.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Some little kids have freaking hard lives too.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I realize that. Some little kids have much harder lives then most people can imagin. I never said all kids had it easy, but many do. This was just how I see it and nothing more.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

wow...so little bitchy today are we? chill out, we get that it continues to get more complicated with bills, family, jobs & everything else. But right now this is what we are seeing, its what we are going through right now so it'll seem difficult because it is. We know what the world holds but we also don't want to see it, what real life holds once we're on our own, we try to block that out & if we can we only see our problems so they seem so much bigger than in real life they are.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Umm, I know plenty of people whose lives don't revolve around whether their crush likes them back. One example come to mind, particularly: He mum died of liver cancer, she moved into her dad's girlfriend's house, now they're moving because her dad and stepmom are having issues, her step sisters are going to have abandonment issues, and I don't know how she does it. I'll take bills and a house and a normal-ish family any day. And there was no need to be rude. We were just lamenting innocence.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I DO worry about whether I'll loose my house, or my parents will get divorced. I know you're trying to make a point but there are alot of teenagers with more on their plate than crushes. Alot of them have shit lives and would give anything to be 5 again.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I didn't really read through all the comments haha but yeah. I don't give a crap about "crushes liking me back". Believe me, I have a lot more on my mind than anyone I know.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

haha i started a debate(:

by Anonymous 14 years ago

this post was really touching and i think everybody needs to calm down and except it for what it is.

by Anonymous 14 years ago