feels like my childhood summer

i woke up and sniffed the morning air and i was suddenly taken back 20 or something years ago. 

the air was damp, like it rained all night long, but the promise of a sunny day peeked through the slats of the bamboo wall of my parents house. and if i were really back in the morning of the 1980's, my cousins and friends would drop by anytime from now and ask my mom if i can go with them to the beach. if my mom would say yes, i would get out of bed like "the flash", grab a towel and run with my friends to the sea shore. swimming, coin searching under the water, floating, racing to the farthest reef and castle building would engulf us until noon or until my uncle would whistle, calling us to come home. then, i would eat lunch. my mom would order us to take siesta after lunch. but as a child, i was always restless and i was always thinking of playing or climbing a tree or picking up flowers and summer fruits or digging up peanuts and turnips or going to the farm. so, i usually played a trick and pretended to be sleeping and sneaked out of the house when my mom has left for work. then, my cousins and i would run to the fields or go to my uncle's house and enjoy the fresh coconut juice, the papayas and sineguelas that my uncle would get for us. we would take a rest in the "kamalig" and wait for our tummies to digest all that we've eaten. before sunset, we would run back home and get our plastic bags and run back to the sea shore to dig up some shells. i'm not good in finding shells, so my cousins would usually give me a share of their catch. when the sun's down, we'll go home for dinner and at around 7, we'll all gather up in the middle of the street to play, "ens", "panagu-ay" or "lagsanay". after an hour or so, we would all go back to our own homes, take a shower and sleep. and basically do the same things the day after. but it was never a bore. i enjoyed every single bit of my childhood summer. 

snap! reality check...

it's 20 or something years after that...now, when i smell the summer air, i would get out of bed, take a shower and go to work. and basically do the same thing everyday. 

i want to go back to the summer of 1980's.