Hello there,
Hope you’re all having a wonderful summer with your loved ones. Since I’m getting closer to my 40th birthday, I have been thinking a lot about how the other three decades felt. The first two I don’t really remember to be honest, even though I’m pretty sure they have shaped me up to be the person I am today. The third was full of excitement and adventures and all the good things in life. The fourth has been a mixed bag, with an equal share of smiles and tears, failures and successes, dreams fulfilled and broken.
While I love the maturity and experience that I like to believe I have gathered over the years, I kinda miss the silly joys of the early decades – the endless giggles with friends over absolutely nothing, the secret imaginary exchanges with crushes, the meaningless rebellions against authority, and countless such moments.
Above all, I miss how short-lived everything used to seem, at the time – the struggles, the setbacks, the sorrows – nothing seemed like it would last forever. No matter what we were going through, we could foster the illusion that it will pass and life will get more stable as we get older.
So, this one thought led to another, and I had to write a poem about it. I choose free verse for my more thoughtful poems, as opposed to rhyme, as free verse seems more serious and mature to me than rhyme.
Anyway, hope you enjoy the poem…
©️ Pebble in the Ocean 2024
Pebble in the Ocean 