Like Peter's Shadow sewed to his feet

You change without noticing it. It just happens. One day your sitting at your computer and you look around at the stuffed animals you used to treasure and hold each day, and the music globes that used to sing to you as you traced your fingers over the glass figurines, crammed onto the same shelves as books about adventures, spirituality and the nero- pathways in the brain.

Maybe you read something online and just thought, "Man, she sounds just like me when I was younger." Only you're not that different in age at all.

It just creeps up on you. One day you look back at the person you were and you see a stranger.

A shadow.

A faceless phantom laughing and crying in the background at the corner of your eye.

But no matter how far behind that shadow is still part of you. Like how Peter Pan's shadows is sewed to his feet.

For instance I'm not a little girl any more but I still go to Neverland and zip through the trees when I fall asleep. I fence with pirates in mid flight beside Peter, but you'd have to pull apart the entire book shelf to find that wrinkled paperback book.

Really it's not a matter of growing up and forgetting your dreams, just a matter of changing and learning, and growing from that hollow skeleton to a flesh and blood human like a character comes to life in that little transition from chapter one to chapter ten because it's okay to have wrinkles and white hair, and still believe in fairies. Like Wendy sitting in her rocker by the open window, looking second to the right, and straight on till morning.

Author's Note

I wrote this maybe a few weeks before the new year. It's by far my most favorite and I feel it describes me as a person on an emotional level better than most of what I've written. Please feel free to tell me what you think and where it can be improved.

Reviews

[Sara Rincon]

I like the concept behind this. You have a few places where you use the wrong grammar which thew me a bit. You may want to be careful of the parallels you draw. remember that for peter to have a shadow sewn to his feet, he first lost it, as he later too lost wendy. Think about what these two characters represent when it comes to aging, wisdom and growth. I think that could be the key to making this even better.

Still, definitely something great here. I think the fact that you are able to take a look at how you're changing and what that means is a great thing, and linking it to a children's story about growing up gives it a nice idea to bounce off of. I like where you're going with it and would love to see more!

[Melissa Rose]

I'll have to look into that. As of now I'm not sure what want to do with it, but those are some good ideas I'm going to play with.

[Samuel Dickens]

I think you're aquiring wisdom--that thing that seems to come only with the passage of time. If things work as they should, we all mature and become better than we once were. Now at almost 65, my beliefs and values are quite different from the me who was 25. If only my body did the same.

[Melissa Rose]

lol.
life is about acquiring wisdom and seeking experience.
Thanks for the review.