Truth or dare

Everything was always better back when. Like our parents, honestly people just older than us like to talk about how back in their day this and back in their day that, and nobody wants to listen to that kind of stuff especially when its sole purpose is to shit on whatever we are currently into right now. Well. They might be onto something though. Obviously not the we aren’t doing anything worth wild stuff but the idea that when life was simpler, it was better. Not in like a worldly sense but in like a flashlight tag, cops and robbers kind of way. Like playing ghosts in the grave yard in an actual grave yard where you’d never even imagine stepping foot in now because your maturation into the world has equipped with you with the appropriate fears and responsibilities to where waiting until it’s pitch black and running around grass littered with 6 foot deep holes and slabs of concrete just waiting to ruin your night isn’t your idea of a great night. But even running into them then wouldn’t have ruined your night, but livened it up because all of you would team up to tease whoever was unfortunate to have a speed date with “in loving memory”. It’s those times that really shaped who we’ve become like the kind of memories that give you certain quirks and feelings about things in your adult life but they’re just as vague as they were fun. 20 questions was another one that was really popular when I was younger too. It single handedly created the move “ that wasn’t me that was my friend” when you said something a little too risky and it crashed and burned. It also saw you learning things about people like their favorite color or movie which just created a wild fire of more questions that starts the kind of friendship you have so long they’re who you’re remembering these times of your lives with. I think the most influential game of our time was truth or dare though, which I know is timeless but still. Like the secrets that came out to a group that could have started out as strangers but because of the game there’s no way it could have stayed that way. Or the stress of playing with your crush and sending your bestfriend cosmic sized brain waves that he or she never got right away just so that they’d dare you to kiss your crush. What’s even better is the splash of reality and nerves you get when the signal finally hits them and it’s your time to put up or shut up. Obviously getting older is better because it gives you more opportunities to meet people and do different things but the best times are the ones when you realize you’re having so much fun, and It could be something you’ve never ever done before but it’s because you feel like that teenager who doesn’t realize that the most memorable things in their life are happening right at that moment, thats just what you are. Just someone waiting, because everything was better back when it was simpler and we all should try to get back to that. One way or another.