About my childhood I can go on and on for days. There is no doubt that it has been the best period of my life and I doubt that anything will top that. I used to love to play outdoors, with my friends from the neighborhood. We would just spend all the day playing all kind of games, like hide-and-seek, tag, games of cards and even football. I remember than one summer day, when I was about 8 years old, I discovered the slingshots. They were so beautiful! I had seen other slingshots, but those ones were usually homemade and they were not appealing to me.

However, the slingshots that I had discovered in the back of a truck were nothing like anything I had ever seen, because they seemed very professional, like they just came out of the store. I immediately called my friends to show them the marvelous slingshots that I have found and they did not hesitate. We grabbed the slingshots and we started to run as fast as we could, until we arrived at the river court where we used to gather every evening. At first, we used the slingshots to make contests. The one whose rock will fall the farthest would win. We had so much fun back then. The slingshots were becoming our symbol, and other kids considered as ‘the cool kids’. I was very proud of myself, because I was the one who had discovered the slingshots, so I proclaimed myself the leader of the group.

Soon after, I wished that I would not have messed with the slingshots. One day, as we were loading our slingshots with rocks, as we always did, we somehow managed to fire into a little girl who just happened to pass by. Luckily for us, the rock hit her in the leg, but a crowd gathered around us immediately, as the girl would not stop screaming. I remember the spanking I got from my mother because I had hit that little innocent girl and for a while I did not want to hear about slingshots. After that, I started to realize how dangerous slingshots can be and I soon gave up on them. However, the childhood memories I made due to the slingshots are unmatched and even now, whenever I see some slingshots, I become nostalgic and I wish that just for a second, I was a child again.