John Williams and his orchestra
Do you remember the color of the socks you wore going to preschool and maybe even gradeschool? I did, they were white.
Wouldn’t it be a huge cliché if I tell you how simple everything was as a kid? You wake up without a care of the future in exception of the next family Sunday, that itself is your utmost happiness. to school to learn things that only make sense several years later. Keep a list of things to ask yourself again when you’re more learned.
The little things matter. Have you ever memorized an eight hundred paged illustrated science book that had animals categorized into their strengths, like the fastest animal on foot? Did you remember how annoying the other sex was? More importantly, do you remember why they’re annoying?
Then you start wearing black socks, the world turns.
Your backyard adventures are substituted for conferences and meetings. The Cartoon Network is but a “waiting” channel while that soap isn’t on. You used to write reports on the need for diversity and that skin is nothing but an exterior, now you’re publishing an article on why globalization is killing off your nation.
Then you go home, gaze at that pile of unpaid Visas. A calendar to check now, you’re off to go out with that girl you’ve always teased and made fun of as a kid. Bigger things –a loan, a car but glooming into a crappy annual pension. You’re successful, but you didn’t turn out what you’ve always wanted to be.. and you’re lonely.
The sock are now faded for something more contemporary for your age; gray.
Looking back, partly regretful and much content. You’ve underwent the unfair, the downright crazy and some of the other characters. The years have certainly got you weary, but wise and almost impeccable. Reminiscing, a realization of once wanting to have wore black as white, and white as black. Now is neutral, everything is finally in place when you find yourself steady, the real bliss comes in. The world is, in wearing gray, finally answered with time as your greatest foe, at least the lack of it.
How many times have you been told that life is too short? How long since the realization? Was there even one? Surely it doesn’t take wearing gray socks.