View from different vantage points..
I guess a person views his/her childhood differently from different vantage points in life.
Before you are 16, you are in it and you want out.
Between 16 to 25, you don’t want any of it anymore because you just got free and are living the big man’s life.
From 25 to 35, you remember it fondly – yeah it was fun, but whatever.
From 35 to almost 50, you yearn for it, you just want it back somehow, you realize how valuable it was.
And beyond 50 or so, you see no hopes of getting it back and you just give up……….