Thoughts while driving

 Yesterday, I drove to a less-travelled route to have lunch, just so to find that perfect fish ball that suits my palette. 

In doing so, I passed by a condo which reminded me "hey, I've been here before. To drop off J at one of his CNY functions with some circle of his friends during his high school years". Those were the days, where all 3 of them relied on me to willingly or unwillingly drive them around just so they can have some fun times out of the ordinary schooldays. I'm glad I gave in to their wishes as compared to now, they are now "free" to go anywhere they like and do not need to depend on me for transportation anymore. 

So as I was driving along following the GPS navigation to my search of the perfect bouncy fish balls, I wondered if I do "miss" those days like crazy crazy, how dramatic some mothers can declare "ooh.. I miss them when they were so young and cute and sweet..."

And I'd say, no, I don't wish to turn back time, not that I don't miss them all cute and sweet and ever so present in my daily life, but just because, I did savor and enjoyed all my time with them before their wings grew and flew them off to their brand new lives. 

Cos as of right now, this is the another phase in my life, I have to savor and enjoy my early "senior" years before I go "senior senior". Perhaps in time, I would beat myself up and say heck, I should have done this in my 50s, how I wish I could go back in time where I could do all these things I can't do now!"

Ahh.. then I reached my destination, time to dig in to those fishballs and chasiew that was hovering in my mind for so long. :)