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kimmiekoko
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Ever since I was just 4 yrs. old, daisies were always my favorite flower. I have strong memories of times of going out to play in the summertime and whenever I'd see yellow daisies it would give me just the warmest feeling.
So, even now, whenever I see daisies it immediately takes me back to those carefree days of summertime and the warm feelings inside, such a nice feeling.
I guess thats why I chose those daisies up at the top of this forum, although they are Pink (which has been my fav. color for several years now).

The other thing that brings back good feelings, is when I was around that same age, there was a song called "I'm so Dizzy", and I used to go around singing that when it came out, I loved it.
Told my husband that and he kidded with me saying, yeah you are pretty dizzy! ha-ha I told him!

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10th June 2008 12:47 p.m.
analiise
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That's cute!  My favorite flowers are lillies - especially white lillies.  Don't care much for orange tiger lillies, but I do like Stargazers - white with dark pink inside.  I love white and blue flowers together in an arrangement.  No songs from my childhood that have any meaning to me - cute that you have one!Smile
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12th June 2008 00:43 a.m.
kimmiekoko
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Oh wow, no songs bring back memories for you?

I have memories for all songs, if it was a good time in my life and I hear a song from then I get sad like a griveing because I wish I could bring back those happy times from then, but if it was a difficult time then I can't even make myself listen to the song.
I guess thats odd I do that.

Another song that stands out for me is that song by America (i think) called "A horse with no name", its when I was about 6 and we all went horseback riding and me and my older sister took off running through the woods and acting like horses and she was singing that song.

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12th June 2008 02:41 a.m.
analiise
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I didn't really have any memorably joyful times in my childhood - I can remember a lot, back to when I was 2 years old, nothing really happy though.  And nothng that I could relate to music.  My parents were extremely strict and in a cult-type Christian church - no dancing, no music except for hymns that were approved of by the church, which we only heard in church, no joy and no laughter.  It was a serious childhood, "seen and not heard" was their motto for children, sit quiet and don't say a word unless you are spoken to, then answer in the shortest way possible while being demure and polite.

There was never a radio playing in our home, no records, no music of any kind.  Just silence, which was broken by the frequent fighting that went on between my parents.  Dad yelling, mom crying.  Not a pleasant way to grow up.

I started listening to music with my friends at school when I was around 10, but I wasn't allowed to visit their homes (they wre "the devil's  children" because they didn't attend OUR church, and I was not allowed to have friends over for the same reason. 

My parents were in the World Wide Church of God - which has since disbanded and has broken into splinter groups.  There are websites devoted to "survivors" of the church.  Children brought up in this curch did not have a normal childhood by any stretch of the imagination.  No holidays either, like we think of holidays.  No birthdays, no Christmas, nothing.  Only Holy days, which entailed hours and hours of sitting in church and listening to sermons.  No fun, no playing.

So that's why I have no songs in my memory from my childhood.

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12th June 2008 19:53 p.m.
kimmiekoko
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Hmmm, I can empathize with you for that. That WOULD be sad to look back on. Sorry you had to endure such trauma. You deserve to have the best now in your life!

You know, my older sister and her ex raised their son just like that for a brief period of time. I would go over there and my nephew would say he wasn't dressing up for halloween, couldn't have any kind of music unless it was church music, couldn't go to regular school, couldn't have regular books/movies, etc. I felt so sorry for that boy, but there was nothting we could do because they were going to raise their kid however they wanted.

My childhood was not what it should have been either, didn't develop emotionally the way a kid should, had to experience things at 9 yrs. old that normally you don't learn until adulthood which kinda confuses you as you grow older.
For some reason though, there are certain happy things that stand out to me from childhood and maybe its just that I would like to grasp on to something at least to drown out the bad, but at the same time there are so many songs that I relate to those "bad feeling"times that it depresses me horribly, not like its something I can detail out or put my finger on, just an unpleasant feeling.
When I talk to friends I a lot of the times reminisce on the good things I felt about my dad or mom despite the bad acts they did because it helps me feel better. My mom and dad were still good people just mixed up because they never learned any better, they were stuck, so I guess I understand that part of it. Doesn't always take away the leftover pain and I don't know if there will ever be anything to take that away but I keep trying anyhow....

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