Childhood Days

      So I recently went to a wedding ( in which I caught the bouquet for the first time :] really beautiful wedding :]... anny way I saw some old childhood friends.  It's amazing how images in your mind stick.  Like I see some of these friends sometimes once a week or other different childhood friends 3-4 times a year.  and all around, when someone mentions their name i just remember their face as a 7 or 8 year old.  Regardless of how often I see them or how old they really are.  It's uncanny.
     When I was a kid my family would always take vacations with another family.  They have a son that's roughly a older or more than me.  Up until he turned 13(?) I was always taller than him.  After than he shot up.  haha in my mind I'll always remember short boy who was older than me and as the kid that teased me and pulled my pig tails.  Now when I look at him or see a picture of him i'm just like "woah".  when did we get so big? 
     Same with another one of my friends.  Now this person I see at least once a week.  I was also taller than him until he turned..wait...i think im still like 1/4 of an inch taller :D.   But when he was 12(?) he got glasses.  and now the name and the face just don't go together.  My brain seems to have set his 8 year old baby face without glasses too his name. 
     It's werid what the human brain does huh?  I think this has happened to me because i still haven't realized how fast everythings passing by.  Time goes by pretty fast.  Friends grow up (literally upwards).  We're all getting older.  and life's getting harder.  There are just times I wish soo badly that I could go back to being a 2nd grader and living a carefree life.  Easy homework..plenty of friends...when the biggest problem I had was "why do people keep pulling my pigtails?" 
    But no.  I can't do that.  I can't live in the past.  Life is hard because it presents an oppertunity to grow as a person.  If life was as easy as it was when we were 6 years old, then we might still have the maturity of a 6 year old.  I sometimes wonder if life is hard just so that the rewards of certain hard obstcales seems worth so much more.  I also believe that with every hard point in life, it creates a new oppertunity to learn to trust God.
    It's time to move on.  We're older now. The reality is childhood friends are taller than me now. Time is flying by faster than ever.  and life is just presenting new oppertunities for me to trust God to develop my character.  Wow, I sound old.  :]