When I get stressed about work, relationships, or bills, I relax by speaking with my friends. One of my favorite conversation topics is childhood memories and games. Listening to my friends speak about the things they enjoyed while they were children always reminds me of my own childhood. My imagination takes me back in time to a place where life was much more fun and so much easier. There werent any problems, reports, deadlines, clients, breakdowns, or taxes. Life was divided into school and no school, with only some homework that interrupted for a bit the cartoon shows and the games with your siblings, friends or cousins. When I think about it, it makes me think of one of a song from one of Charlie Browns movies: Maybe its some kind of magic, that only little kids can do. It certainly felt that way. Santa came all the way from the North Pole each year, fatal wounds could be cured with a kiss from mom, and even if monsters and pirates lurked around the house, you could always defeat them with the help of dad. On the other hand, there were no taxes, no telephone, electricity and gas bills, no overdue debts, no mortgage payments, no dating messages to decipher, no budgets, no holding on line, no commissions to pay, no calories to be counted, no light food, no hangovers, no worrisome medical tests, etc.