Trash or Treasure?

Trash or Treasure

By: Christine Grace Tan

Can you still remember that wide-eyed expression in your face when you first caught a sight of the jaw-dropping display of fire crackers during the New Year's Eve? Or is your memory is still that sharp enough to recall the eccentric things you've always begged your mom to give you? How about the bedtime stories of fairytales you used to hear every night? And the twirls of lollipops, candies and icings which were the reasons behind your disgusting toothaches! Oouch!.. Your creepy beliefs of the ghosts? The magical fairies? And of course your Guardian angel?

When no one seems to be around and the deafening silence ruled over the house, you showed off your tip-toeing expertise while secretly trespassing the master's bedroom ala spy. Apparently, you sneaked out some tempting coins from dad's drawer. For what reason? Just for a good afternoon ice cream delight! Tough the melted cream spilled all over your face and messed up your clothes, so what? The hell you care? Unfortunately to your shock, it fell right in front of you and oohh.. everything's gone…You shrieked out loud, burst into tears as if something terrible happened. How pathetic you look that day yet, I couldn't help but laugh knowing that its just because of…of…never mind! And, since you have no more choice, you went home sadly with dropped shoulders, depressed and upset.

I bet we all had been to these shameful moments we never wanted to hear again. Ooops.. Did I spill the beans? Uhhm… Sorry, I didn't mean to. Well guys, we're still teens and gray hair days are still to long, long years away from us. So, don't pretend that as early us now, you already had a memory gap and forgot all these fun yet worth remembering parts of our lives. Why? It's just I'm so sure you still get reminded of them. Well, if not all then at least you brought some, right? Oohh… come' on… Deny? No way!... I know you don't want to be called some kind of a liar, do you? Kidding aside, I believe no one leaves his past behind-dumped and junked. We treasure them. We remember. Of course we all do. We just hate to admit it simply because it remind us of how cheesy we were before. And the childish-attitudes you have? Yikes! But let's face it-it's part of you. A big part, in fact.

The rays of the morning's lights transcend to your window glass and slowly, you opened your eyes and realize you were now with the reality covering the scene. Nothing really dies out and vanishes. They just grow and change. And we are deemed not an exception to this. From little eggs to chirping chicks, a tiny seed to a colossal tree, a shy caterpillar to a high-flying butterfly and we? An innocent child to a grown up teen. See the difference? Way back years ago, when we are still toddlers,