this is cheating

During our lunch break at school we ended up having a random conversation about marriage, kids, work and other random stuff that will eventually become a part of our post-student life. From kids we moved on to toys, amusement parks and sports. We realised that really being a child is so much more fun than being an adult.

As a child one can go to a jumping castle whenever and with whoever, as long as he or she remembers to take shoes off. As an adult, even a young adult, one can’t even jump on a road without a certain amount of negative attention. Yet, this is not the worse thing. As a child, in an amusement park, one of the best thing is to drive around with those little cars that you can bump into each other in great speed. Not too many of us step into them after getting our licence, as real cars are supposed to be by far faster.

If we were, with out real cars to drive into another one, just because the driver of the other one was competition, annoying, smaller, bigger or just on the way, we would get fined or in the worse case go to jail. If we did this as kids - we were heroes.

We decided not to be too disappointed about no longer being allowed to go into the little “pool with balls” because there you are bound to be hit by someone or by a ball or be kicked or whatever. So this indeed is not a loss comparable to the jumping castle, bumping cars etc etc.

Before returning to the library, to class, to a meeting we decided that we have been cheated – we should have stayed little.