When I was young I, like all other young children, believed in things like Santa, the Easter Bunny,the Tooth Fairy during my childhood. Sadly those childhood figures were debunked all by the time I was 10. First it was the Easter Bunny, obviously as on those church sundays I could see about 10 parents laying eggs randomly around the field in the back. At the time I didn't really care as the Easter Bunny was not one of my favorites but still, that's one down. The next was the Tooth Fairy as I saw my dad try to sneakily put a 1 dollar bill under my pillow and walk away, that one hurt a bit as I actually believed in the Fairy. But Santa was the one that truly ruined my childhood, seeing my cousins parents and my mom wrap gifts from said "santa" and put them in a closet truly ruined that feeling of being rewarded for being good.
Safe to say I was no longer worried about being a bad apple.
Did it feel as if you lost a part of yourself and that the past wasn't the same?
ReplyDeleteZach, you have a great, comic writer's voice.
ReplyDeleteYour entry would benefit from a little more elaboration. You don't say what you thought as each of your childhood favorites "fell" one by one. You don't say how you changed, so how do you know that you lost your innocence? Normally some sort of change in behavior or habit is the sign that you've changed. If that happened, describe it.
I agree with Mr. B, you should explain how you felt in more detail. What happened after you found out about "Santa"? Did you confront your family about it?
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