Written for https://weeklyprompts.com/2025/11/29/weekly-prompts-the-one-day-prompt-19/
A child counts the years in quarters and halves. I couldn’t wait until I was ten. Being in double figures felt like I had grown up. Sixteen, and leaving school was my next goal. Another two years until I was eighteen. Although in the drinking stakes, I was glad we didn’t have to show identification.
The eighties — what can I say?
One day, and time passes before we know it.
I some ways, I wish I hadn’t wished the years away and enjoyed being a child. The freedom of relaxing in my room, playing kerbie (hitting a tennis ball on the kerb), listening to music, reading comics, skipping, playing marbles (losing most of them), collecting conkers, playing monopoly, talking with Dad, sharing stories with Mum.
Working in a school, I wish the term away, but that only gets me older quicker.
One day I was small
wanting to grow tall.
Today my hopes will be
strong as roots in a tree.
Writer Ravenclaw 
I think I enjoyed being a child, but I can’t remember when I stopped being one, if that makes sense. I suppose it happened gradually.
Thank you very much for sharing this with our One Day challenge, you made me stop and think!
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Time passes before we know it. You sure got that right.
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🙂
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I agree, this year flew by, I wish the years would go slower, I hate getting old. Xx
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I don’t mind getting old, just the pace it is going at lol
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Beautiful memories
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Time goes by so fast and we are in such a hurry (when we are young) to get to the next chapter or phase or landmark. Then, as we age and look back (wistfully) we wish we had taken more time in each. Lovely, Diana
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