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Daily Question, March 15

What did a perfect day look like to me when I was younger?

  • Zaina

    Lying in the garden all day, maybe building a tent, watching barbie movies, playing games like badminton, recording videos of myself, reading story books in the outdoors, general relaxing.

  • Malag

    Probably one where I was distracted and entertained for the whole day. Back then I had no sense of being present. Except for a perfect moment. The perfect moment happened very occasionally usually on a holiday: life stood still in a nice place with me very relaxed. What I also didn’t realise back then that the perfectness of the moment was in fact me being very present to it. It took me a long time to build that into my evey day.

  • Mike

    I don’t remember a perfect day. But, feeling as I do that my levels of self-absorption border on narcissism, I believe that if I had one, it would have been a day in which I was so taken up by some wonderful something or someone outside me that I effectively forgot myself the whole day through.

  • Kristi

    A perfect day as a kid was a day of adventure and exploring with friends!

  • Anna

    Some of you told about not having big interactions with others and reading fairy tails.
    Me too, dreaming a world where I could feel a great peace, without pressure.
    Now it is quite different, though I am a bit introvert, I love relationships.
    I keep on loving dreams.

  • Hot Sauce

    When I was younger, a perfect day was just a day when I laughed a lot with my friends and came home without a lot of schoolwork. If only I could go back to those days where my worries were small!

  • Dusty Su

    Any of the following, but all included being in nature in some form, horse riding, sitting in a park, drawing, writing, reading, reflecting, walking on the beach for hours… people watching, undisturbed. Stimulated, rested, creative, connected to the world, but without big interactions with others.

  • Tori

    My perfect day when I was younger was having my family over for get togethers to cook out and play with my cousins. We would gather at my grandmother’s house and she was would make the best food and I just remember being outside all day playing. Those were my best and fondest memories, days I wish I could go back to.

  • sb

    I have lots of memories of short, perfect moments but a perfect day? Has to be roaming free on the marshes with my brother, cousins and, often, friends. The illusion of total freedom, being at one with nature, the smells (yes, I love the smell of marsh mud!), the sounds, the feel of the squishy mud, being active, independent, carefree….nothing to beat it! Thanks for stimulating me to relive it now!

    • sunnypatti

      I dig the smell of pluff mud, too!

      • Mike

        The smell of pluff mud is something my wife and I have experienced only in the past decade, as we’ve taken our sailboat down the Intracoastal Waterway and through the Low Country. It may not be to everyone’s taste – one cannot confuse it, for instance, with roses – but it is a rich, fertile, wonderful smell.

  • Melissa

    Boogie boarding at Henry’s Beach with all my friends and brothers in the sun and sand and seaweed. With shells on the beach and pelicans in the air.

  • Antoinette

    Swimming at the beach in Hawaii where I grew up was always a perfect day!

  • Emily

    Being outdoors and enjoying nature and being in the sun

  • Don Jones

    The surf, sun and sand.

  • expati

    Lying in my homemade lean-to out in the backyard, shaded from the summer heat, where I read books from the library.

  • Christine

    Reading fairy tales.

  • Lauryn
    Waking up on a summer morning, looking out my window and seeing the morning sun shining through the trees. I grew up in a small coastal Massachusetts town. In the summer my sister and I would ride our bikes to the beach...our town was mostly residential and it made for a beautiful bike ride - everyone’s perfectly manicured lawn and gardens with flowers blooming. I often think about the bad memories from my childhood...so I particularly appreciate today’s question that prompted me remember th...

    Waking up on a summer morning, looking out my window and seeing the morning sun shining through the trees. I grew up in a small coastal Massachusetts town. In the summer my sister and I would ride our bikes to the beach…our town was mostly residential and it made for a beautiful bike ride – everyone’s perfectly manicured lawn and gardens with flowers blooming. I often think about the bad memories from my childhood…so I particularly appreciate today’s question that prompted me remember the good.

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  • Carol

    Any day when I felt safe was a a perfect day for me.

  • k'Care-Reena
    WHAT DID A PERFECT DAY LOOK LIKE TO YOU WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER?Before I responded I took some time to allow the feelings to. overwhelm me, in order to get a true response. Here is what I came up with. As a child we are mostly innocent. In Public School I was a teachers pet, I liked going to school and sneaking dolls into school and playing with my friends. Or make a dance routine to show off to my class with my best friends. We were so innocent we wanted to dance to PEACHES & CREAM but our mu...

    WHAT DID A PERFECT DAY LOOK LIKE TO YOU WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER?Before I responded I took some time to allow the feelings to. overwhelm me, in order to get a true response. Here is what I came up with. As a child we are mostly innocent. In Public School I was a teachers pet, I liked going to school and sneaking dolls into school and playing with my friends. Or make a dance routine to show off to my class with my best friends. We were so innocent we wanted to dance to PEACHES & CREAM but our music teacher told us no. As a child my mother put me in broadway and that was one of the bestest experience in my life. Acting on 28th St in NYC fro 8-12. My father would pick my sister and I up from school. Cook for us so we could eat before we would rehearsal, we always wanted MCDONALDS on the corner no matter how hard my father cooked. Actin off Broadway is my perfect day. In school my friends and I were the outcast and after school I was on stage!!!
    PS. Shout out to ma and pops. Parents!!!! I love you more than you will ever know. thanks so much for all your sacrifices. Day by Day I realize. more and more things my parents have done for me.

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  • Cathie

    I never envisioned a perfect day; I didn’t think that way. I wished for peace – daily in our tumultuous situations. Maybe I couldn’t envision a perfect day???
    However, I always looked forward to summer vacation with my family – I felt free and often at peace there by the lake.

  • Michele

    Family gatherings and hanging with friends. (And snow days meant no school)

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