Yesterday was the kids first day of school. The night before my wife and I reinstated all the passwords on the computers and took away the power cord to the Playstation -- basically "de-videoed" the house. The looks on their faces was as if they were about to be sent off to prison.
I can't believe how lucky they are to still be in school, yet they think it's hard and can't wait to get out. I want to tell them not to rush; to take their time and savor the protected environment of primary school, but it would fall on deaf ears. I was just as impatient when I was their age -- eager to graduate, go to college, graduate college and become an adult. And now that I am an adult, all I want is to go back to those wonderfully simple days!
There is a new movie coming out called The Curious Life of Benjamin Button starring Brad Pitt with a storyline of a man that lives his life backwards -- starting as an old man & getting younger as he lives his life. Perhaps that's what I'm wishing for -- the ability to go back while knowing what I know now.
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