I may have bad vision, but I at least have 20/20 hindsight

I've been thinking today about how much I miss the way things used to be. How easy they were, and it's sad because I didn't even know it. I miss trips to Walmart listening to Maroon 5 and thanking God for corny friends. I miss summer nights, giggling and feeling dangerous. I miss things like the senior-year mudfight and when pre-gaming didn't refer to alcohol. I miss hanging out with my band geek and chess geek friends in North Carolina. In retrospect, everything seemed so much easier then.

But I suppose that's just the nostalgia talking. I absolutely had more than my fair share of problems then. In many ways, my life might be a little easier now. More complicated, yes, but I am also far more capable now than I was then. Doesn't that mean my life is easier?

In another five years, I'll probably look back at the so-called "complexities" of my life now and laugh. After all, a 2000-word story is just a grade for me now. In a few years, it will be my salary. I only hope that by then, I will have grown more than I have in the last few years.

When you really think about it, weren't there certain aspects of life at age ten that seemed just as unbearable as certain aspects of life at age twenty? It's only with retrospect that we see just how menial those problems really were.