We went from “who loves orange soda?” to take a shot for me. To waiting in lines at the DMV, from waiting in lines at the school dance like “bruh hold my spot for me” From N64 controllers to leasing a Toyota Corolla Dealing with these adult life problems we don’t have no control of
From pillow forts to the rents due From action figures to hopes of six figures From razor scooters to shaving with razors From love letters to car notes crazy right?
The only losses we worried about were argued through Rock Paper Scissors. Now we worry about losing jobs, material things and on the news daily we lose our brothers and sisters.
The only pain we felt was scraping our knees on the concrete. Now we scrape change tryna pay the bills hoping that our ends meet. I wish I could go back, I close my eyez with my memories and feel gratification. And the thing I miss most of all at that tender age is my imagination