Memories

I remember being young, and going out to play in between the trees in the park next to my house. And I would talk to each of them, and I knew them, and they knew me. Each tree had its own personality, as well as a soul.

My sisters and my friends and I would go and play in this park that we lovingly dubed “The Court” due to it being in the middle of our houses on Baylis Crt.

We would play lots of games, but one of our favorites was playing “T.V Tag”

This was a game where one person would be “It” and the rest of us would run around and try not to get touched by “It”. If they got close, you could fall down to the ground and say the name of a television show. My older sister and I were sneaky, and liked to trick my younger sister, and always tell her made up television shows. My younger sister had this stuffed bear that she carried around with her everywhere named Bear Bear. And the best way to trick her in T.V. tag was the made up television show “Bear Bear world”. And my older sister and I would always fall to the ground and shout out “Bear Bear World” and my sister would accept it, without fail, and walk away to chase some one else, and we would laugh at her misfortune.

One day I was “It” and I was chasing my next door neighbor Michael through the trees, and as he was about to sit down to call out the name of a Television show, I tried to tag him, but instead shoved him into a near by tree. The blood started to pool out of his nose. I felt so bad…this was the first time I can remember hurting someone to this severity. I thought he would never be my friend again, I thought he would never forgive me, I thought that I had done something so horrible….

I still feel that way when I hurt people…