Some because "we are older" and others because "we feel older" We have stopped doing many things that we did when we were children and that we had a lot of fun, that they were the logical thing, the normal thing and what had to be done if one had a minimum of appreciation and wanted that the friends or the friends also had it Sure!
I have searched my memory and found nothing less than 23 “things” we did when we were little and now we don't do at least ... most, some of us resist stopping them.
No, I have not done all of them but I have seen that they were made with too much joy around me and no, the truth is that if I am sincere ... no, I have not been able to stop doing them all and I hope you do not either.
Food-related
Bite the ice cream cone from the bottom (1) practically as you bought it to eat it on both sides. And of course, seeing what it costs to get the chocolate stains we don't do it anymore, right?
"Slicing" the plate with bread (2), with a lot of bread, until it was practically like when we had just taken it out of the closet, always if what we had to eat had any of those sauces that made us suck our fingers. Well and that too, suck our fingers when something was very, very rich (3) and we had been able to eat it with our hands ... one of the great pleasures when it comes to eating especially when you are a child: eat with your hands (4) and yes, another one of the things that you are supposed to stop doing when you are older but not at all or at least not when you are quietly at home.
Who has not eaten cocoa powder to tablespoons (5) When I was a kid? The world record is three tablespoons, the third cough is inevitable and put the kitchen lost ... it is also. Maybe that's why we've stopped doing it, because now it's our turn to clean the mess. And put to eat chocolate with a spoon are not you from those who occasionally made him a visit to the pot of chocolate cream to put the spoon (6) sneakily as well as unintentionally? And no, of course ... this is another one of those things that we no longer do ... never ... well, almost never right?
Creativity before a dish when you are a child is undervalued, when you are older it is called “unstructuring” the gastronomic concepts but that lentil sandwich with the bread stick peak (7) what we were doing, that we invented, the children of a few years ago, even if we stopped doing it. How rich he was, by the way!
When playing
Yes, here I think we are missing too many cool things that the same should be considered to recover. Maybe not all, let's be sensible but some would have to be taken more seriously to do them again ...
For example I don't see myself anymore climbing trees to play (8) Although it is one of the funniest things we could do when we were children, that's true, the olive trees were the best without a doubt! Knock us down to play (9), to throw some badges or marbles in the mud or simply on the ground because neither but throw ourselves on the floor of the living room to play with our children that we continue to do from time to time. It is true that we did not get up with the same agility as before but well ... we continue having fun with them and how we did when we were like them.
Play "rubber" (10) Do you remember, and how are you doing with agility? It is another of the activities that most of us have stopped growing, almost more than skipping rope (11), that from time to time and in a group and with friends, sometimes we still practice it… ok, very occasionally.
Almost as play hopscotch in the street (12), on special occasions yes but, they are the least right? but already about Play "Churro and Half Sleeve" (13) no, we have definitely left that for reasons of our own and others' health… that at certain ages the excesses can be dangerous!
Something we loved and sometimes do again with the excuse that we do it with them is what cross puddles with water boots (14) and even sometimes jumping, weak to avoid splashing our clothes but jumping is still as fun as before! Why we played in the street (15) For a long time, every day and not only do we not do that which would be the most normal thing, it is that sadly neither do our children, although we talk about that better day.
Plus
When we were at home, many times before sleeping, we wrote a diary (16) some from a very young age, others already somewhat older in that narrow strip between childhood and adolescence, but it is rare for adults to continue with that therapeutic custom, right? Y ask everything (17), what made us doubt, the explanations themselves, what we had just known, what was going on around us and what we heard was happening several thousand kilometers away. Ask everything, always, with the insatiable curiosity of childhood.
Sometimes of pure exhaustion we slept anywhere, anyway and at any time (18) and obviously later, when we woke up, it didn't hurt a muscle or a bone or anything at all, just like now that we are a little older!
We were sleepy, as we slept, there was nothing more to say, although it is also true that if they told us that we had to go to bed, go to bed, sleep ... then no, we tried to delay bedtime (19) everything our parents would allow us to negotiate, insist, even if we were almost falling asleep in the chair. The thing about going to bed, like this in general, we didn't like when we were children.
And to put on the coat to go out on the street either, it is normal that we wanted much more always go outside without shelter (20) Even if it was the month of January, the children's thermostat measures degrees differently or else, ask your children now. Are you putting on your coat without anyone telling you? Since we're going out, when we're little, we put on cologne as if there was no tomorrow (21) We loved to take the bottle and start throwing cologne almost without knowing what was going to end before if the bottle or any dry part of our clothes.
Before leaving home, our mothers also used to encourage us to go to the bathroom because otherwise I was a mathematician, As soon as we started to “dance” it was that we had a superhuman desire to pee (22) and we couldn't do it for some reason. Now at least, we do not "dance" when we have the same desire, right?
And finally ... the most eschatological ... Yes, it was inevitable to talk about mucus and its taste (23) Of course you are reading and I write that we have never tried them but we had a partner who sometimes hit them without any shame in front of whoever it was and that thanks to the maturity of the years, does not do it or at least We no longer see him as when we went to school.
It is only a small list of those actions, activities, reactions, customs or habits that we had as children, those that we have decided to leave little by little as we have become adults or those that we have preferred to keep because they remind us that the boy we were, still living with us.
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