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         I guess there really wasn’t anything to look up to. Walking through the field doesn’t seem to be quite as mysterious as back then. Discovering a new planet doesn’t make me wish of flying. I don’t look up to the sky wandering all day till it was time to go home. I don’t want to work as hard as an astronaut, I don’t want to stay up all night practicing baseball, I don’t want to captain a ship across the ocean. Everything seems too difficult now.

         Bugs don’t amaze me, rocks don’t seem as shiny, snow fights won’t exist, the rain falls so silently, bathing doesn’t involve boats and oceans and sharks. Everything is meant to waste, all the money I thought I had, all the magic I thought I owned, all the friends that no one else knew of, and all the worlds I visited. Nothing really came with me in the end.

         I hate the things I learned, they destroyed my best friend, the home I had in the woods, and the noises my car would make. They made everything nearly explainable, they made imagination hide, and they made me realize that one bloody cut won’t kill me.

         So towards the end, I decided that genie that seemed to have followed me around isn’t going to help me anymore. Though if I could have that last wish granted I would wish I had the power to be five again…

         So I could have the powers I thought I had.

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Posted by cookingWine 2008-03-06 19:10:06 body snatcher tarhead here that was well done, but I have to say - speaking for all of the five year olds still hiding in adult bodies - shake that genie out of his bottle! + Report this comment
Posted by tarhead 2008-03-06 19:13:05 Yes!! I am myself again! that last body had a bum knee! write on! + Report this comment
Posted by cookingWine 2008-03-06 19:19:18 .... Non-fiction? + Report this comment
Posted by R.E.Potter 2008-03-07 18:38:00 ,,, This is a really good piece of short writing. I'm putting it down as a favorite. + Report this comment
Posted by Egoist 2008-03-08 21:59:01 .... Wow, thanks, all of you. I'm glad you guys liked it. It was quite short, but I believe I expressed how I felt growing up is like. I sort of miss the genie and the magic I owned. + Report this comment
Posted by jakebullock 2008-03-09 10:24:17 ... sad but true + Report this comment
Posted by Egoist 2008-03-09 16:02:39 .... Hey, I haven't seen you in a while. Thanks for commenting L.B.J. + Report this comment

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