As I get older, I truly begin to see how much I took my youth for granted and no more was that noticeable than this past week.
I was at the local peewee hockey team’s first game at the Tier 4 hockey championships on March 17 and the game went on until about 10:30 p.m.
Of course the young players were tired but their next game was 5 p.m. the next day and they didn’t have to worry about school because the local schools were off for spring break (and will be so until next week).
While I have holiday time, it’s nowhere close to the amount of time children get off. I will take a week off at Christmas and also in the summer but it is only two weeks and not the two months that students generally have in July and August.
Not that I particularly hate adulthood but I long for less worry and stress in my life.
While children not only in the area, but across the province, have various amounts of time off for spring, I’m left with only the long weekend coming up and that is not nearly enough time to recharge my batteries with all things that happen in the area in a given week.
These days I have to worry about real world problems, like finances, groceries, car insurance and the rising price of gas but back then, my only concern was getting that video game I always wanted or the clothes or shoes.
While they seemed like real dilemmas back then, they weren’t. As I get older, I realize the cheaper sneakers do pretty much the same job as the exorbitantly expensive ones. Video games are still a source of enjoyment but groceries and staples of life are more important.
While I like where I am, I can’t help but think back to simpler time, when school was all I really had to worry about and along with it the summer holidays and spring break.