People have been obsessed with the idea of "healing the inner child" within them. The definition depends on how the person understood the idea of the phrase. Sometimes it's about doing the things that a person was not privileged to do during their childhood, eating the foods they wanted to try, or trying to experience the moments they were neglected to do due to poverty or other reasons.
As people who did not grow up with the silver spoons, we also have our ways on how to heal our inner child even in the most ordinary ways. Join us as we share with everyone our arcade moments, that we did not get to try that much way back when we were younger.
We are living in the province of Zambales, and maybe the first things that you guys will imagine are the mountains, weak signals, and more details that would describe the pros and cons of living in the countryside. Yes, they were true, and live hours away from the city. Because of that, we grew up playing outside our homes, and not in the arcades.
Now that we got older, we wanted to try it out to somehow heal our inner child. Honestly, growing up in the province also made us jealous to other privileged kids in the city because it felt like they can visit and play arcades anytime they want - not unlike us, happened once in a blue moon.
It took us almost an hour drive going to Subic, Zambales, particularly in Waltermart. We headed at the back, where arcades are located and we saw several people playing and enjoying around too. Before we started playing, we took some time roaming around and looking at every corner like we were 7 years olds again.
Like what we mentioned above, we do not have much of experience in playing in these kinds of machines so we also don't know the games or how they are played. But the colorful lights surrounding them made them even more interesting in the eyes of children.
And one of the reasons why kids enjoy playing here is because of the prizes they can get once they won in an arcade game. As we continue walking around and getting ourselves amazed by the different games, we saw some of the machines that give interesting stuffs as prizes, like bears, wallets, colorful key chains, and other kinds of toys that children will surely love having.
But to us who only played with leaves, stones, recycled cans, and more, these prizes were far from the laughter and moments we shared with our playmates.
| Wallet Prizes | Toy Prizes |
|---|---|
When we already saw which of them would make us enjoy our arcade moment, we started playing and we did not capture pictures anymore. We got busy in trying the different claw machines and the other games even though we do not have much experience in playing them since then.
The answer to the question of how do we heal our inner child, in our own version, is by trying the things we did not experience when we were younger. And now, we already removed one on our bucket list: to enjoy playing arcade games.
Thank you so much for reading. Sending good vibes to everyone!
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