[♫ Ceilla]

When I was little, and people would say, “What do you look forward to in the future?”, I’d give them those typical replies about hover boards or floating islands, the things I saw on TV glorifying what people thought would be the ideal future. Or I’d tell them how I’d be a veterinarian, helping all the sick little animals get better. When you’re little, everything’s lit by sunshine as you play off in your world of imagination. You don’t think about the consequences of what those hover boards might run on, clogging up the earth or the fact that you can’t save all those animals from death. And no one tells you otherwise… They hide their jealousy of your naivety, maybe they hush truths because they want to be around innocent children to place themselves back in that world.

When I was little, I saw the future in sunshine linings too, a life with my parents close by, my job that I loved, my naivety still etched into my personality. And boys were ‘icky’ back then, so there was no one else but my family. The sun would touch everything in everywhere, it would touch everyone’s hearts, everyone would be friends with everyone.

When I was little, the true future was nothing. It wasn’t there in my mind  because the things that exist now aren’t known by little four year olds. And even the adults who thought they would just let the future pass on by as an audience couldn’t see the drastic changes that loomed ahead. No one listened to the world around them. And as I progressed on in my life, the sunshine that once encased everything began to recede.