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If You Could Be A Little Girl Again... Just For A Month... Would You ?

By Karen Anne Stone

Real Estate Agent with New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County

February 15, 2008 06:43 PM

Every once in awhile I wonder. What would life be like if I could be a little girl again ? Would the world be peaceful ? Would life be closer to "normal"... whatever that means ?

Everyone has fantasies. Everyone occasionally dreams of escaping, of doing something to some way create a world of peace, of carefree times, or perhaps of days gone by.

So... I ask this question. If you had the power to go back in time... in some cases wayyyy back in time, and be a little girl again... Would You ?

What would your life be like ? Would you simply re-visit your little girl-hood the way it was when you originally lived it ? Or... would you re-create your little girl-hood into a girlhood you would choose for your self... making some changes... making it a "brand new" little girl-hood ?

Talk to me... tell me your story. Make it as short or as long as you wish. If YOU could be a LITTLE GIRL again... either the little girl you were... or the little girl you'd now create... just for a month... would you ?

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Melissa Grant

A Serendipity World - Greenbackville, VA

The Law of Attraction In Life & Business

Okay you have me thinking...thinking to the point where I will get another cup of coffee and come back soon ! Great post !

Feb 18, 2008 10:13 PM

Diana Hadsell

The Magazine of Santa Clarita & Elite Magazine - Santa Clarita, CA

To go back, knowing what you know now. Yah

But I also beleive that is why we have children. My 3years daughter is my life and every night when it's just her and I and she wants to play "tea party", I'm a little girl again.

Diana

Feb 19, 2008 11:24 AM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Diana: That is so sweet. What a great way to look at life while watching your own daughter grow up. Treasure every minute of it, Diana. My daughter Robin is 35 now, and those tea parties are way, way back in the past. Those memories continue to gradually fade... although there are many things I will always treasure. Thanks for sharing. By the way, what's your daughter's name ?

Feb 19, 2008 12:05 PM

Suellyn Godino

Prudential Steamboat Realty - Steamboat Springs, CO

GRI, CDPE, Pres. SS Board

Karen, What a thought...Hmmm...I feel young at 53, but would not wish to be a child again. No, been there,done that. Always thought that it was better to live in the present. That it was a gift... Great post.

Feb 24, 2008 01:45 PM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Deborah: I am glad Chris brought you here to me. I invite you to read some of my other posts, and to subscribe to my blog. Chris herself is very much a winner !

Surely we do not actually have the ability to go back and re-live out girlhood, but sometimes it is nice to fantasize. I give you huggs upon hearing the hint of a less-than-loving girlhood. We all need to have had a girl-hood... whether in the past, or somehow even now. You deserve to be adored, supported and wisely guided.

We do have it in our power, however, to become the "mother to ourselves" right now... in the present. It appears that in your re-creation of your life... that you have done that very thing. You may not have had as much of a loving girlhood as you may have wished... but please know now that you do have a loving sisterhood... in the present. Thank you for your kindness in your "wisdom" comment. Take care... and huggs to you. Karen Anne

Feb 25, 2008 03:57 AM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Suellyn: Feeling young at 53 is truly a gift. Living in the present is also good. If we need to, each of us has the ability... in the present and in the "now", to re-become our own mother if we need to. Luckily I have made a bit of progress in doing that. Not as much as I need to, but some... thankfully. Take care, Suellyn :)

Feb 25, 2008 04:00 AM

Diana Foster

BKG brokerage - Braselton, GA

Realtor- Helping you find the perfect home!!

To go back in time......naaa, I would miss a whole month of my daughters life. She is almost 6 and everyday is a new adventure. Thanks for making me smile, Diana:)

Feb 26, 2008 02:27 AM

Dana Forster

AHome4Sale - Fredericksburg, VA

Realtor, A Home 4Sale Inc, Va

Interesting thought! I would like to go back in time for a short visit. I love my life now and enjoy my husband and three boys tremendously but I would love to do the following again:

Spend one more day with my Dad, I lost him unexpectedly. I would love to introduce my children to the greatest man I ever knew!
Laugh for hours on end with my sister on the bottom bunk (while constantly being yelled at by parents to be quiet!) Yes, I have become my mother and yelled at my children for the samething.
Go swimming in the Creek at my Grandparents house, to include jumping off the 20 foot rock! What a rush that was.
Do a better job at keeping in touch with some of the really important people in my life, ( I often wonder about them, where they are, etc)
Be able to eat whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted without gaining a pound.
Know then what I know now, not to sweat the small stuff, life is to short.
......................... Oh it is fun to remember, but I am glad to be where I am!

Feb 26, 2008 11:56 AM

Kim Dean

www.GoSimplyTexas.com - McKinney, TX

Simply Texas Real Estate - Broker/Owner

YES! I would...I just said it today to my 5 month old- I wish I were you for a day. Or my six year old...oh to be young again. I'd love it!

Feb 26, 2008 03:32 PM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Diana: If I could come up with just one great reason not to go back to the past... it would be your reason. What an absolute invitation for happiness... spending time... day in and day out... with one's six year old daughter. Diana, you are truly blessed. Take care... you made me smile, too.

Feb 27, 2008 05:57 AM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Dana: What a great list. It is almost like you called AAA to get yourself a "Triptik" and laid out an exact plan on what you would do on your very own trip to your childhood. Each and every one of your "things to do" would be great reasons for going, but to have so many would surely make it a trip to take. Thanks for sharing.

Feb 27, 2008 06:00 AM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Hi Kim: see how magic Active Rain is ? You made the request this morning, and by 11:32am today... you found this post. And, today you get the prize for being the first commentor I can remember from McKinney, Texas. Perhaps you should write your own post describing what it would be like for you to spend a day as your five-month old, and another day as your six year old.

Tell us what it would be like. I bet that would be a really cute post. I will be looking for it. Take care...

Feb 27, 2008 06:09 AM

Karen Villa Schweinfurth

RE/MAX Northwest Realtors, Inc. 425-308-3669 - Everett, WA

ABR, CRS, SRES, CyberStar

Hey, great post. This has reminded me to go back to my childhood for a few moments and savor those special days with family and friends and just frolicking out in the street where it was safe!

Feb 27, 2008 11:35 PM

Kelly Turbeville

Keller Williams - Lake Forest, CA

Turning Real Estate Dreams into Reality

What we are not little girls anymore, no one told me! I revisit my childhood everytime I see one of my nieces giggle, put there hands on their hips and smile without a care in the world.

Feb 28, 2008 10:48 AM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Hi Karen: I hope you enjoyed your visit back to your girlhood. Savoring those special days in the past... perhaps with friends and family whom you don't see very often anymore. It truly was a safer time for many... although there are many women who were less fortunate.

That's why I offered the choice in this post to either go back and enjoy a brief trip to one's girlhood, or for some the chance to go back and re-create a girlhood where they could actually be a little girl... perhaps for the very first time. Choice is good. And Karen, I'm glad you enjoyed your familiy and friends again. Take care...

Feb 28, 2008 02:03 PM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Kelly: Luckily, many of us still are little girls. Many of us don't have to go back and visit... we still are little girls in one way or another.

You, Kelly, are most fortunate to have such a nearby window to your own little girlhood with your nieces. I can honestly picture them giggling... with their hands on their hips. Not a care in the world ! How wonderful is that ! This image brings to mind one of Mary Englebreit's drawings that we always see in her art work. I'm going to have to go back and find my Mar Englebreit books, and get a few of those images into my posts. Wow... thanks for providing my the visual image of your nieces. It brought that memory back to me.

Feb 28, 2008 02:08 PM

Liz Carter

Liz Carter & Team Realty-Your Real Estate Resource For Life! - Katy, TX

Broker/Owner of Liz Carter & Team Realty, Katy TX (Houston)

Hi Karen Anne,reading all your post that I have and your comments on your post makes me want to just in the car or crab a plan and come snuggle up with you for an afternoon and just talk :). I bet you are a great listener too.

I would go back in a heart beat, just to have that little bit of time with Mother and Daddy who I miss so terribly much even after all these years of them being gone.

I would want to set with Mother on the porch and hear her sing to me "I walk through the garden", and laugh when I tried to sing with her. She would laugh so much at me and say, "No, Elizabeth Ann listen do you voice like this", I would try again and she would laugh more till we were both in total giggle mode. To have her hold me in her lap, fix my favorite coconut pie with 'freash grated coconut' for my birthday, teach me to play canasta, help her with her flowers, so many happy beautiful moments.

Then my daddy, who was a very tender hearted man, and loved us deeply but was unable to show it, but we knew it. To have him send me copies of his favorite funny page jokes he liked to read so much. To talk to me as I was older at anytime of the night, with never "why did you call at 3 AM", it was "baby now everything's going to be all right, go back to bed, get some sleep and don't let the bedbugs bite".

They are buried in our family cemetery in East Texas where his side of the family settled in the 1800;s under the Piney Woods. Daddy's tombstone reads; "He made us laugh and never judged", on Mothers; "She was always there for us, no matter what"

Thanks for getting me to take this short trip back to the loves of my life forever, my Mother and Daddy remembered. love chain spreading love in the rain, Elizabeth Ann aka Liz

Feb 29, 2008 11:30 AM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Hi Elizabeth Ann: I am so glad that reading my post sent you on a trip back in time to visit your Mother and Daddy. They truly sound like wonderful people. Both my Mom and Dad are gone now, too, although at times I feel my Mom is near. I think it was cool your Mom called you Elizabeth Ann. She really much have loved that name, as I am sure she love you. Where did your name come from ? Was that your Mom's name, or an Aunt ? I love hearing those kinds of stories. Take care... and thanks so much for sharing such a tender part of you with us.

Feb 29, 2008 11:52 AM

Liz Moras Migic

Chilliwack, BC

Chilliwack, British Columbia - Realtor

If I could be a little girl again...I love the idea....its really started me thinking.....theres so little I remember - most of what I do though ,is through photos and slides..... I remember being a very precocious little girl....I'm not sure I every felt 'little'........honestly I usually felt so grown up and too old for my years......If I were to go back....I'd want to be carefree, playful, silly, spontaneous, get dirty, roll in the grass......play in the sandbox.....and be allowed not to be perfect! My parents were immigrant folks and they just wanted the very best for me.....Heck they did the best they could and they loved me.....so I don't have much to complain about.......:-) maybe just a bit more 'playfulness'..:-) and Little Girlishness ...

Mar 31, 2008 06:18 PM

Karen Anne Stone

New Home Hunters of Fort Worth and Tarrant County - Fort Worth, TX

Fort Worth Real Estate

Liz: You ere totally adorable... not that you aren't now, too. I just love writing posts that get people thinking. I love how everyone jumps in when what I write tickles people's imagination. That is a big part of the enjoyment for me. So... when you comment on my posts... by all means... perfection is not required. Sharing is ! Take care... and thanks for sharing... :) Oh yes, I think I remember your parents were from Croatia ? I would love to hear about them living in their "homeland." Were you born there, or in BC ? Inquiring minds want to know. This sounds like a great idea for a post for you to write.

Mar 31, 2008 06:28 PM