Favorite Toy

When I was younger my favorite toys were Legos. I had an enormous Lego set with variations of size, color, and shape. Legos instilled in me the power to create my own cities, states, and other kinds of environments. It is cool to think that at such a young age, Legos were causing me to build things and think creatively. I mostly enjoyed building houses and enormously sized cars, probably because I would see them every day in my own world. I would even humanize Barbies and kens to interact in these environments I created to make them seem more legitimate and real.

            Each Lego was red, blue, yellow, green, and sometimes black. My particular collection of Legos came with tires and triangular Legos as well as the typical rectangular or square ones allowing for more leeway for things I could build. My Legoland was far from a real world, but more like a Disneyland with endless amounts of things to do for my inhabiting Barbies in a tiny little Legotown. My sister would join me sometimes in creating this imaginary world, but because she was younger I was constantly overpowering her in the way I wanted things to operate in Legotown, the way they should look, and how we would go about building them. She of course would give in to me as though I was a leader or superior creator of this Legoland. I cherish these times we shared together over planning our new Lego-based civilization and almost wish that we could share a moment like that now because sometimes I feel that the older we grow the more superficial our relationship becomes.