[blueerica]

I had to think about it pretty hard, because I'm not really sure I need to experience things again for the first time. For the most part, I believe it's the tiny details I've appreciated all along, the wonderment, excitement of the new. But, if I could do it differently, not that I would for I would have to forego an important piece of my childhood, but...

I'd love to see Disneyland through the eyes of a 5 or 6 year old. Since pretty much everyone on my mom's side of the family has been employed by the mouse, I've been going there since I was a newborn, several times a year. Nothing ever felt 'new,' with the exception of new rides, and even then I've become fairly jaded about the experience. Many new rides were introduced when I was a sarcastic teen who'd been to the park way too many times for her own good. The closest I've felt to newness and excitement as a child was Splash Mountain.

That said, I wouldn't change a thing, since I know it's how my family bonded with me when I was younger. With their then-meager funds, it was a way they could dote on the only grandchild and spend quality time in a place they were intimately familiar with.

Other than that, it's hard to say. I'd love to go back and read Harry Potter with new eyes. Same for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, except the reading would be watching and what-not. I'd like to watch cartoons in the same feverish way I did as a child, but I suppose that just shows that I'm weary of adulthood, not so much that I'd want to go back, though. I'll tell you what, though, I will pass on going back to the First Time of all First Times... Yeesh!