Let The Games Begin
This weekend my husband had his friends over for a gaming sleepover. They are all just shy of thirty years old, but at least four times a year they get together and act as if they are barely teenagers. Our home happens to be in the middle of everyone else’s and my husband has the majority of the video games so they always come here. The junk food comes out, the games start up, and they stay up into the wee hours of the night without a care in the world.
I slipped in and took pictures every couple of hours, catching childish expressions of glee as one would win a game or score on another. My nine month old son even got in on the excitement, clapping and squealing wildly, especially when his father was happily winning. I took even more pictures of those precious father-son moments. My son has many of his father’s features so it was like he had his own mini self on his lap.
The whole weekend was filled with good times that deserve to be remembered long after these men can no longer find the time to get together. When the child inside takes over is when the best pictures are there for the taking. Childhood is only carefree for so long. Every moment of that time should be captured in memory, because that is what builds who you are when those times are gone.
If you can recapture that happiness for a day or two, squeeze every memory you can out of it. Whether you are catching happy childhood moments of a child or an adult, they are both to be seized and treasured. Make some time to recapture your youth, if only for a few moments. Your happiness matters, it affects everything around you and it is reenergizing, like a child on a summer day.
Christy H.
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