Time always runs at lightning speed, every damn weekend, sometimes I want to click the PAUSE button, go back and hit PLAY again. This weekend I went back a bit like a child, and honestly I don't mind at all, on the occasion of my nephew's birthday. I love parties, especially those of children because seeing their happiness and their enthusiasm really conveys so many beautiful sensations and this gives a meaning to our whole life: to see our children happy.
Like any party, there is a theme and for this celebration it's Dragon Ball! Well which of you has never seen any episode of Goku and his friends? When I was still in school, he would come home exactly at the start time of the show, around 2pm, and I remember recording the shows on VHS, in case I was late. Balloons of Goku and Vegeta were scattered almost everywhere, colored and grouped in compositions, or loose and around a bit throughout the villa.
The animator for the children was really incredible because not only did he entertain the little ones, but he also interacted with the parents and I confess that at one point a water balloon burst in my hands, practically wetting my pants and shirt. Luckily the day was warm enough but then what does it matter? All the children laughed and I too with them!
Among the funniest moments, the circle within the circle: all the children joined hands, forming a large circle. In two distant points, the animator introduced a hoop, like those of the hula hoop, between the hands of the children and who had to move them without untying the hands of the neighboring companions. Imagine the adult version how it turned out 😁
At a certain point the break moment, with trays of sandwiches, focaccia, rustic, panzerotti, sandwiches and I don't know how much other food was scattered on special well-set tables. I love children's parties but I think I've already said that!
Finally, the moment of cutting the cake with all the children hugging the birthday boy, a single big smile that is difficult to describe. The cake obviously always has as its object our hero Goku and all of his friends and opponents who made us so angry during the hundreds of episodes of the animated series. Then the moment of gifts and when my nephew saw the Nintendo Switch he literally burst into tears. He reminded me of myself when they gave me the Sega Mega Drive and the Sonic game for Christmas!
Parties are also fun times for adults who, with the opportunity to entertain their children, quit the role of adult parent and transform themselves, as if we were on the Neverland of Peter Pan. At the bottom of ourselves, we all have awake the child in us, very often he is asleep because life allows us to play too little when we grow up. Yet children teach us that happiness is really the only thing that really matters.