What does it mean to be a child?- Believing in magic.
- Sitting atop a guava tree and eating fruits until my tummy is filled to bursting.
- Eating green mangoes until my tongue is raw.
- Playing until I am exhausted
- Running until my heart is about to jump out of me.
- Reading in my tree house.
- Exploring woods and fields with cousins and friends.
- Swinging from one tree to the next.
- Coming home all covered in mud.
- Hunting spiders and...
- Pitting those spiders against other spiders owned by boys.
- Playing in voluminous skirts and with ribbons in my hair.
- Dressing up in my mother's clothes.
- Swimming all day and...
- At night feeling lulled to sleep by the waves.
- Reading until I'm blind.- Wanting everything in cartoons to be real.
- Falling off trees.- Chasing after dragonflies.
- Caring for birds with broken wings.
- Hiding in books whenever my father yells and screams and breaks our hearts.
- Sitting cross-legged on the floor while my grandpa reads me stories.
- Watching yellow butterflies in my mother's garden.
- Helping my grandpa plant vegetables and trees.
- Pretending my grandpa's mushrooms had elves living in them.
- Playing under a full moon.
- Watching all kinds of animals give birth.
- Stealing eggs from mother hens.
- Waiting to grow up and see the worlds I read about.
- Laughing until my tummy hurts.
- Reading until I can no longer hear my parents fight.
- Wishing the adults were kinder.
- And lastly, wishing I was small enough to live in a flower.
pictures: from a trip to Tokyo Disneyland with my ma
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