Remember when you were a kid? And you were stupid? And you feared random things?
I used to be terrified of Peter Pan, who i was pretty sure was living in our bathtub, only at night. When I had to pee at 3 o clock in the morning, I'd very carefully look behind the curtain to make sure he wouldn't jump out and laugh at me as I peed. I even formulated an elaborate escape plan through my window should that happen.
I was terrified of Sully from Monster's Inc. I was so terrified that I slept in Nathan's room on a trundle bed for years. I was actually generally creeped out when it was dark and I was alone. I was pretty sure he lived in my closet.
Remember when you were a kid? And you made up alternate realities?
My friend made up this whole game about this world called Candyland that she had been too, and that Nathan and I could come with her. She said she'd meet me in the backyard at 2 in the morning and she'd take me there. I stayed up until 3 staring out the window, waiting for her to flash her flashlight in the backyard, then got mad at her the next day.
What random crap did you think up when you were a kid?
It's pretty funny. As I've gotten older, my fantasies and dreams have just become more elaborate and fantastical. I don't think I'll ever settle into adult "realness." Sure, I'll start to think and act like one, but I'll never truly "be" one.
ReplyDeleteWell I actually corresponded with the tooth fairy-who, I am relieved to tell you, is neither a male OR a female, but some kind of shim (she + him). Oh, and the lady bugs are in league with the toothfairy.
ReplyDeleteI believed that fairies lived in the tree in my yard. I even knew where there door was, and I would spend hours trying to imagine what it looked like inside.
I planned to run away for years-not cause I was terribly unhappy, I just wanted adventure. I always kept my little pink suitcase packed. I planned to live on honeysuckle and the yummy edible sour clover.