mellowed

you know the feeling when your eyes are heavy, almost relaxed; the underside of them, better known as "bags," have a stinging-pulsing sensation, cool, yet hot...and it's inevitable that if your lids fell down, shutting over the things that let you see, you would be dreaming in less than a minute?

yes. these are my eyes today.

i'm in a somewhat nostalgic mood.  i want to be back in the house i grew up in, wearing my pink non-slip socks, so that the non-slip is on the top of my foot, running fast then stopping the motion as quickly as it started in order to slide the length of the hardwood hallway.  riding my bicycle, with the rubber handles and plastic metallic pink and purple streamers, around the neighborhood with my brother and sister. eating velveeta shells and cheese and fish sticks ('yummies,' as my family affectionately calls them) to my heart's content.  enjoying the feeling of accomplishment after finishing a multiplication worksheet for my math homework - not being burdened by this task.

i want to be a kid again, with no worries in the world.