Happy Sunday! This week, Tina from Travels and Trifles presented a truly difficult theme for Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #298 – To Be Young Again.

This week’s challenge really took me some time to think but then I recalled posting a memory on my Facebook profile a few days ago when it reminded me that it’s been 10 years since I graduated with my first undergraduate degree.

10 years! Where has the time gone?

It’s also almost a decade since I got my second undergraduate in accounting. I spent 4 months in China after finishing school and while I was there, my aunt took me on a walk down memory lane. This was the wall of the elementary school I went to in China. The school has changed a bit since I left – with a new coat of color for the exterior walls and a slight expansion – still, I would’ve recognized it anywhere.

Though I would never wish to be back at that school again, I do wish time would slow down to allow me to savor the sweet moments.

I quite enjoyed watching these children play on a warm spring day a few years ago. I like the carefree attitudes these children have. I think it’s what’s like to be young. I feel I was this carefree at one time when I was a child but as I aged, I became less silly and more serious.

Finally, I think to be young again means less pain. I don’t think I can even attempt to jump like that now without hearing any strange sounds coming from my body.

A few nights ago, my friend called me and asked me how I was. “It depends on the day,” I told her.

It really does depends on the day. There are days when I would feel great, that I can lift 40-pounds with ease while there are days when I’m double-over in pain or just want to lie in bed all day. Many would say I’m too young to be experiencing such thing but guess what, you weren’t born with a bone disease.