Don’t you remember?

Do you remember that world we all lived in? When we were so very tiny, and the tall people loved us. And scolded us. And fed us yummy food. And vegetables. Ew, vegetables. But we wanted to play, so we stomached them or snuck them off our plate. When Christmas took light years to arrive. And school days were millenniums. We somehow managed to conquer evil every day before sundown. Time was much, much longer. Slow motion, you might say. Everything was an adventure. Cardboard boxes were rocket ships and castles. Bed sheets were ship sails and forts. Street lamps were clocks. Playgrounds were planets. We ran and ran and ran. Tag and red rover, and hide and go seek. We imagined. We...we believed. We believed we could fly if we kept trying. We believed in ourselves and our dreams. Ring-pops were diamonds. Cereal and crackerjack boxes had treasure at the bottom. Band-aids and kisses on scraped knees and elbows saved the world. Make believe friends at tea parties and cops and robbers were very much real. Do you remember? The big, big world of a kid. Before enchantment's golden thread ripped at the seams. Our skin was made of Disney movie magic. We believed. We believed. I remember. I remember believing...in...me.