Playtime was something that was part of my everyday during early middle school. Those lunchtime breaks usually ended with full lunch boxes and thoroughly exhausted kids. Never realized when the playtime in our lives just disappeared in the race to get ahead.
Today, when I think of playtime it probably happens once or twice in a year. It usually includes an arcade where we mostly ended up going bowling but sometimes we do go crazy with the VR games :). Playtime for me always is the time where I laugh without the fears or burden of the world. In that moment I just enjoy what is in front of me without any judgements.
They may call on my inappropriate behavior for my age but that’s alright I just made a core memory to remind me of the lighter side of life.