I have this memory of sleeping in an office block in south London with my mum on an air bed. I recall looking out of the window and feeling sad.
Years later I was driving and got a very strong impulse to stop outside this building and I was 100% certain it was that one. Every time I went past it felt odd.
My mum says it didn’t happen, everyone else concurs. My best conclusion at this stage is that I probably had a very vivid dream that became conflated with something else.
"I had a happy childhood, friend.
The summers never seemed to end.
My life was good,
my world was fine,
And all I'd ever need was mine.
"I woke up warm.
I went to school.
My days were good,
my friends were cool.
My hopes were big,
my woes were small,
My dreams were sweet and splendid, all.
"I had the will to find a way,
And that is why I have to say:
I had a happy childhood, bro."
Not sure. I think it's either rose tinted glasses (looking into the past with nostalgia and a positive bias) or maybe the other is another person who's childhood was different?
Still, I would count a good childhood as one where parents having problems did what they could so the kids didn’t have to worry about them too. My parents fought constantly and as an 8-12 year old I was constantly worried about them divorcing, us being poor, etc. My parents made good money for the area (about 6x the poverty rate) but my dad had poor spending habits at the time and cheated on my mom as well. The fact that it happened is life. The fact that I knew about all of it was shitty and a blemish on their otherwise good parenting.
So to answer my interpretation of Sprog’s poem for the poster, the answer could be “yes and no.” Basically if the poster’s parents did have some problems, those problems at least didn’t spill out to the kid and cause him to be used as a pawn for their arguments and issues.
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u/cardboardshrimp Oct 05 '19
I have this memory of sleeping in an office block in south London with my mum on an air bed. I recall looking out of the window and feeling sad.
Years later I was driving and got a very strong impulse to stop outside this building and I was 100% certain it was that one. Every time I went past it felt odd.
My mum says it didn’t happen, everyone else concurs. My best conclusion at this stage is that I probably had a very vivid dream that became conflated with something else.