Childhood

When you are in it, you think it'll never, ever come to an end. How could its magic simply vanish!... gone with relentless time? Because time itself is but illusion to a child, something that moves so slowly you can never really understand why the grownups keep on and on about wasting time, and how time flies! Nonsense! you say, because you know! You know time is a glacier-- just look how long it seems before a birthday or Christmas comes-- when days are weeks and weeks are months.... And in your child-heart you believe you will always remain young and free of spirit, for you are wise and know the big people live in a hard little world while you are ruler of an entire universe....