The End

December 18th was the day, I won’t forget that day anytime soon, everyone was getting ready for Christmas, but my cousin and I were getting ready for some deep work. We started out the day as normal, eating our chocolate cereal, taking a shower, and going out on a short bicycle ride. When we came back from the ride, we just sat down on the same leather couch we had been on the day before where we found our answer, now; we were determined to find the way to make that answer the real one, the only one. As we stood up from the couch, and started walking away my mom saw us and asked “where are you guys going?” to which my cousin replied “to smash some mailboxes” my mom only laughed and sent us off, right when we were leaving the house she screamed “be sure to be back by seven, seven thirty at the most”. We set off, my watch marking two and forty-eight pm. We walked past the driveway, into the sidewalk and kept on going on it. Our decision was to first go and see a kids’ movie at the local theater, which was just a couple of blocks away. We walked past the entrance to the neighborhood.

In a matter of maybe ten minutes we would be making a line to the theater, we decided to watch “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” because we felt like even though it was meant for kids, it still had something in it for teens, neither of us had watched the movie, so we really didn’t know what to expect, even though we had a general idea about it. Thanks to the movie we found out a lot about the answer, while we obviously aren’t kids, we still enjoyed the movie. The kids in the theater all loved the movie; we could hear them as we were walking out of the theater with comments like: “wow mom, that was the best movie ever”, “cooooooool”, and “I loved the part where…” although we didn’t think the movie was all that special, even though we both love C.S. Lewis and his Narnia series, we still hadn’t found our “inner kid”, or “inner teen” we were pretty much stuck. We had lost two hours and we still didn’t have a clue on what to do next.

One of the kids was tugging at his mom’s shirt, asking her to let him go to some kid named Jimmy, apparently every one of his friends was going to the party. The mom kept refusing and made him get into the car, the kid was clearly very angry at his mother, and just sat in the back with a frown in his face and his arms crossed. We just kept watching as the car left, and I thought aloud “were we ever that way?” my cousin just replied with a quick nod, and went to tell how we would always do that and that most of the times we got our way. I then asked her “will gaining our inner kid really be that useful? I mean, it’s not like we were superman back then” she replied with a comment that just made my question seem dumb, she said “yeah, but we really did feel like we were superman, that we could do anything, and that the world was our playground”. This put a whole new meaning to our day, we were really trying to find the freedom and imagination we had as a kid, not an “inner kid”. We had finally found our answer; it had taken way shorter than we had expected it to. We were deeply satisfied, the kind of satisfaction which only comes when you finally get something out of your head that you have been thinking a long time about. We headed home and got there at around five o’ clock. We just turned the PS3 on and played all day long, having to finally be able to rest and not have a care in the world. That is what we all have lost, and what we all have to find.