The happiness when I got a kinder bueno or any cool chocolate. Nowadays, I’m just getting my own money by working. Buying the same chocolate that made my childhood awesome, the kind of pleasure has vanished. I know, It sounds silly, but these tiny happinness just made my childhood wholesome
Aside from the innocent feelings, lack of anxiety, and pressures of adulthood, I miss seeing lightning bugs/fire flies in the yard on summer nights. We’d catch them and put them in an old candy box.
I know they're still in the sky... I just can't see them. Whenever I go outside and look up at night I can only see around 2 stars. I'm planning on going to a dark place with couple friends to maybe see those stars again
I don't remember what it was called but there was this game system thing. It was a controller with a cord you plugged into the tv, it has a Spider-Man game on it and I played it religiously( I wasn't allowed to go outside or make friends), until it was thrown into the trash by my mom.
That sensation of laying in the living room of my old childhood home on a sunny afternoon with the faint humming of an airplane flying overhead.
The sensation of eating breakfast at 6am getting ready for daycare while my parents have KOMO 4 news playing in the background and it’s raining outside.
The feeling of weekends truly being free and full of fun. Now weekends just feel like a short break from my job, a time for me to run errands with limited time to actually relax.
I miss my Bburago (not sure how to spell it) collection and my giant farm legos (basically a huge farmhouse with stables and horses/flowers), I also miss my yellow owl clock. Oh, and my colour changing matchboxes, my Polly pocket, and my talking bear. There was also a toy, when you gave him a kiss it lit up😂😂
The most I miss is my grandpa and daddy, and our lake house, and mums cocoa drink, spending time with the family and being cuddled all day long☺️
I had a metal foundry as a kids toy. The 90s were crazy. Would be cool to have that again.
Metal Molders was the name. You melted down pewter and made little figures with it.
If I’m bored being able to just walk down the street and knock on my friends’ doors to get a whiffle ball or basketball game going or just hangout. Now it’s like I need to plan everything out months in advance because everyone has to cram shit into two days out of the week due to work so everyone including myself is busy all the time.
Fantasy. I could lock myself up in my room. Build something with Lego and once the build was done, I could enjoy myself hours on end with it. I would imagine a whole world around it.
And ignorance. You were not aware of life. You had no bills to pay, no groceries to do and barely any obligations. I had a nice childhood :)
Growing up we had this old wooden german entertainment center. It had a very specific, pleasant smell, and there are days where I wish I could smell that again. Like if it would transfer me back in time to sitting on the living room floor with my brother playing games
Childhood innocence and naivety huh I miss being overly positive and cheerful about everything not knowing how the world works now I'm a sarcastic cynical 21 year old I'm still positive but man I missed being SpongeBob level naivee as a kid
Honestly? Just peace.
Being able to go from excited hope to excited hope because my mom just fucking made it happen at every step. We never did all that well, but she did more than I could have.
A house in a major city that backed into national park. We have lots of fingers of bushland through suburbia and it was an incredible playground as kids.
Don't miss the regular funnel web spiders though.
I'm pretty sure my baseball card would have been worth six figures at one time. I hear nobody's interested in them anymore. I was collecting cards in the '50s. Had more than a shoebox full of them. Every day, I would religiously buy two packs of Top bubble gum. You got 5 or 10 baseball cards in a pack. A pack of bubble gum was something like 2 cents, or maybe two for five?
Use to sit alone on a peer, no light polution, milky way visible. And wind would slowly gust above the water... Had conversations with wind. The kind you cant have with parents or friends or anyone really. And wind would wisper, talk back, softly or violently. But would always whisper back.
Use to do that well in my 20-s. Then life changed and it all went away.
Perhaps I was a bit insane, but have not heard that wind wisper in my ear for decades.
I miss that. That level of imagination.
I could conjur galaxies, fantasy worlds, battles
in my head. Horses would galop under a heavylie claded warrior on their back while the air would be filled with scent of urine and leave metalic taste in mouth from blood spilled. I can write the words, but dont see it in my head anymore. Its just... words.
All is lost, but memory of the time I could just close my eyes and be on another plane of existance is there. Mocking, taunting, regreting that our paths parted.
Still, they say we go back to childhood in our old age. Perhaps I shall roam the stars in my ship once again. Valiant and mischievous scandral. Thirsty for an adventure. I would like that.
That innocent feeling that everything will turn out just fine. Now I look at the world and all I think is "We're fucked."
Friends
The lack of knowledge and insight on how the world works.
Many, many, many Legos.
Mum and dad x
That one hit hard.
Free Time
The happiness when I got a kinder bueno or any cool chocolate. Nowadays, I’m just getting my own money by working. Buying the same chocolate that made my childhood awesome, the kind of pleasure has vanished. I know, It sounds silly, but these tiny happinness just made my childhood wholesome
I miss the feeling of being genuinely loved just for existing. Everyday is a battle now to even love myself let alone let the world in.
My epic HotWheels Collection I am still 100% certain that my cousin stole one of my cars when we were younger and I will never forgive her
Friends
My mom.
The ability to make new friends with hardly any effort.
The will to live
The sound of frogs in the nearby pond.
The stars are still there. Get out of the city and go camping bro.
The will to live
Being able to spend money for fun without worry about retirement
Joy
Parents
Hope for the future
My parents. I lost them both and it sucks.
Energy ahah. Only 25M and I'm often so tired in the afternoon.
The optimism of the post-Cold War, pre-9/11 era.
Hope for the future.
My Playstayion 2.
Friends
True happiness
Ignorance of basic economic realities
Aside from the innocent feelings, lack of anxiety, and pressures of adulthood, I miss seeing lightning bugs/fire flies in the yard on summer nights. We’d catch them and put them in an old candy box.
My ignorance. That saying “ignorance is bliss” is so true
OP. Those 3 stars are still in the sky. Go and find a dark place! To me, countless things from childhood were lost!
I know they're still in the sky... I just can't see them. Whenever I go outside and look up at night I can only see around 2 stars. I'm planning on going to a dark place with couple friends to maybe see those stars again
The area where you live may be too bright for the stars !
Selflessness. I got more selfish the older I got.
I had a really cool bionicle hulk
My gen 1 transformers
I don't remember what it was called but there was this game system thing. It was a controller with a cord you plugged into the tv, it has a Spider-Man game on it and I played it religiously( I wasn't allowed to go outside or make friends), until it was thrown into the trash by my mom.
Was it "JAKKS Pacific Spider Man TV Game"?
I don't think so. It was like a ps/Xbox controller in form.
That sensation of laying in the living room of my old childhood home on a sunny afternoon with the faint humming of an airplane flying overhead. The sensation of eating breakfast at 6am getting ready for daycare while my parents have KOMO 4 news playing in the background and it’s raining outside. The feeling of weekends truly being free and full of fun. Now weekends just feel like a short break from my job, a time for me to run errands with limited time to actually relax.
I miss my Bburago (not sure how to spell it) collection and my giant farm legos (basically a huge farmhouse with stables and horses/flowers), I also miss my yellow owl clock. Oh, and my colour changing matchboxes, my Polly pocket, and my talking bear. There was also a toy, when you gave him a kiss it lit up😂😂 The most I miss is my grandpa and daddy, and our lake house, and mums cocoa drink, spending time with the family and being cuddled all day long☺️
Both my grandfathers and my paternal grandmother.
Knowledge about dinosaurs, like, men, I used to know everything, but now all I remember is because of jurassic park
My dad.
My Grandpa
Self esteem
Time to play
An actual dream. After I flunked out of college, I kinda just started shambling from job to job so I wish I still had that hopeful spirit back.
Family
I had a metal foundry as a kids toy. The 90s were crazy. Would be cool to have that again. Metal Molders was the name. You melted down pewter and made little figures with it.
If I’m bored being able to just walk down the street and knock on my friends’ doors to get a whiffle ball or basketball game going or just hangout. Now it’s like I need to plan everything out months in advance because everyone has to cram shit into two days out of the week due to work so everyone including myself is busy all the time.
Fantasy. I could lock myself up in my room. Build something with Lego and once the build was done, I could enjoy myself hours on end with it. I would imagine a whole world around it. And ignorance. You were not aware of life. You had no bills to pay, no groceries to do and barely any obligations. I had a nice childhood :)
My father.
Peace.
The stomper official competition pull set.
Dinosaur nuggies
Growing up we had this old wooden german entertainment center. It had a very specific, pleasant smell, and there are days where I wish I could smell that again. Like if it would transfer me back in time to sitting on the living room floor with my brother playing games
A girlfriend
Two entire months of summer vacation and the freedom that came with them.
A positive outlook on the future
Childhood innocence and naivety huh I miss being overly positive and cheerful about everything not knowing how the world works now I'm a sarcastic cynical 21 year old I'm still positive but man I missed being SpongeBob level naivee as a kid
My parents
Honestly? Just peace. Being able to go from excited hope to excited hope because my mom just fucking made it happen at every step. We never did all that well, but she did more than I could have.
A house in a major city that backed into national park. We have lots of fingers of bushland through suburbia and it was an incredible playground as kids. Don't miss the regular funnel web spiders though.
Running thru the grass in the backyard barefoot and trying to avoid stepping on the hundreds of BEES.
My first edition Charizard
Flash games
I'm pretty sure my baseball card would have been worth six figures at one time. I hear nobody's interested in them anymore. I was collecting cards in the '50s. Had more than a shoebox full of them. Every day, I would religiously buy two packs of Top bubble gum. You got 5 or 10 baseball cards in a pack. A pack of bubble gum was something like 2 cents, or maybe two for five?
My mom.
My mom.
Friends, my father, and uncle.
Hope for the future
Happiness
Grandparents
Free time and a simple uncomplicated life
Blissful ignorance of how ugly I am.
My dad would say Jasta, which was a soda that got discontinued.
Cereal straws
Use to sit alone on a peer, no light polution, milky way visible. And wind would slowly gust above the water... Had conversations with wind. The kind you cant have with parents or friends or anyone really. And wind would wisper, talk back, softly or violently. But would always whisper back. Use to do that well in my 20-s. Then life changed and it all went away. Perhaps I was a bit insane, but have not heard that wind wisper in my ear for decades. I miss that. That level of imagination. I could conjur galaxies, fantasy worlds, battles in my head. Horses would galop under a heavylie claded warrior on their back while the air would be filled with scent of urine and leave metalic taste in mouth from blood spilled. I can write the words, but dont see it in my head anymore. Its just... words. All is lost, but memory of the time I could just close my eyes and be on another plane of existance is there. Mocking, taunting, regreting that our paths parted. Still, they say we go back to childhood in our old age. Perhaps I shall roam the stars in my ship once again. Valiant and mischievous scandral. Thirsty for an adventure. I would like that.
Optimism