eighteen years ago....
I was a child.
We were meeting everyday at the PLACE where
we were playing seek and hide, soccer and many other non-screen games.Many soccer balls were lost, some of them far inside the gardens of super-angry from our noise neighbours.
We were throwing rocks to each other.Some of them hitting our head or breaking one of our teeth.And with some iodine on the wounds it was all good.That is what grandmas did.
We were being burned under the hot sun without applying sunscreen with 20spf.And it felt good.Grandmas put a mixture of iodine and oil onto our skin.It was our universal little sunburn remedy.
And with nothing onto our backs we were creating these HUGE CASTLES on the sand.It was all we wanted.
We were playing trying to spit each other.Yet no one suffered from contagious disease.We were drinking from the others bottles,yet no one suffered from anything contagious.We were even touching with our mouths the little public school water faucets,still nothing contagious.Were being cut by contaminated metals,but due to our fear towards our parents,we just shut up .Didnt have tetanus vaccinations and still it was all good.
We were getting lice from each other.This is what happens when your mouth drops down the mud.And grandmas seemed to cure it with some warm vinegar.Grandmas were our real doctor.Our hero .
We were being lost at the streets till the sun come down and the town lights turned on.And we were returning back home.No one was calling us.We didnt have any cellphones.
We were meeting each other without any cellphones.We were just going out and came across each other.
We didnt pick up girls from chatrooms and social media.
We were fighting each other and hurt ourselves.And this lasted for the next day by teasing each other.And was all good without any psychiatrist.
We were alone outside.To the world.There was nothing to be afraid of.No violence. There was no one to supervise us.Not even Big Brother.
Our best food:ice cream and gmo cheetos.Yet you wouldnt see these days overweight children.And when we werent having this crap we were just forgeting to eat anything!
The teenagers were driving without any seatbelts and always with beers in their hands.
Some years of true freedom.A freedom that every child in this world should have before growing up.
Our heroic years.