When we were kids

I was at my friend’s place yesterday and we were talking about the time when we were kids, all mischief that we did, high school love stories and all the embarrassing moments that we had to face because of our juvenile foolishness. We talked for hours and kept laughing recalling all those good old memories. The time was so good then, we were all so careless and away from the worries of the real world; all we had to do is go to school, play cricket after school, do some studies in the evening, watch television and then go to bed with a sound sleep; that was pretty much every day routine. We were not worried about anything- not about the job, money or relationships or how the future’s gonna look like few years down the line. All we thought about and planned of were things going on that moment or next or a day after; nothing more than that came to our mind or if it did we didn’t care-we were living life pretty much in present, unlike today when we are no more kids and we worry much about things gone wrong in past and things that may happen in future. Now we don’t enjoy the present as much as we did while we were kids.

I wonder why it has become so tough to live life in present and be happy all the time even when we have grown more independent than ever, earning quite handsome salaries and living in bigger cities with much easier lifestyle. I wish I knew the answer to that but it’s all just so much clouded that I can’t recall when and why did I lose track of living life in “just the present”.