The 5 senses of childhood.

All it takes is one. One touch, one look, one taste, one sound, even one smell to send your mind in to over drive bringing back all the memories connected with that one thing. Sometimes the memories are good but sometimes the memories are linked with sadness or heartache. This is true in all aspects of life, love, school, breakups, vacations, and even childhood. 

 TOUCHING childhood:

• The feel of your parents arms enclosed around you, knowing that no one could get to you as long as you were there.
• Running barefoot through the freshly watered grass.
• Falling off your bike and scrapping your knee, and feeling as though you just broke a leg.
• Squishing and sculpting play dough.
• Pushing buttons. lots and lots of buttons driving your parents mad while complicating everything with your curiosity and the urge to touch the buttons.  
• Getting stung by a bee.
• Crashing into the ground after an attempt to fly.

HEARING childhood:

• The song of a lullaby as it draws you into sleep.
• Hearing sirens blare across the neighbor hood and thinking they were after you for whatever "stunt" you pulled earlier that day.
• "you got a friend in me.. you got a friend in me.." "I can show you the world..." "winnie the pooh...." "my oh my looks like the boy too shy ain't gonna kiss the girl..." "when you wish upon a star...."
• "PUT THAT DOWN"
• "Stop tattling on your brother!"
• "DO NOT TOUCH THAT"
• "What do you want to be when you grow up? You can be anything you want."
• "I love you." 

TASTING childhood:

• Taste tests of lemonade. Right before you were about to go make bank selling it.
• Grandmas homemade noodles.
• Ice cream.
• Eating everything off the ground... that is only up till the 5... or 10 second rule.
• Year old candy you stored under your bed from halloween.
• Did I say ice cream?
• Ice sickles in the Winter and popsicles in the Summer.
• Soap.. for some of you anyways.

SMELLING childhood:

• Moms homeade cookies.
• The christmas tree the night you bring it home.
• your self... after a long day of "exploring" the dirt piles out back.
• Your popcorn burning in the microwave after persisting to your parents you were big enough to make it on your own.
• The smell of Fast food after a victory at your little league game.
• Over whelming scent of perfume drenched over your self in order to impress your crush.
• Dirty diapers.

SEEING childhood:

• Watching every move your older brother makes so you can repeat it and become just like him. 
• Seeing magic in every glint of sparkle.
• A new born baby for the first time. 
• Seeing EVERYTHING for the first time.
• Turning a pile of dirt into a mountain. 
• Seeing every wall, paper, sidewalk as an empty canvas.
• Finding shapes in every cloud even if it was just another circle.
• Transforming the back yard into a jungle, a moon, a vast sea of pirates, etc.
• Seeing THE best in everyone. Even when most see only the worst. 

Knowing what can take us back, in a sense,  is what we need to hold onto. We should revisit our past to find hope and remember the innocence and dreams we once had. By no means am I saying to live in your past but you should always remember it, because sometimes your going to feel hopeless and lost and alone. And when that happens a little trip back to your childhood can restore those feelings you once had of hope, light, and endless opportunities. 

-June Carter