Everything is bigger when you are younger

For as long as I can remember it has been a Holiday tradition to take a drive to downtown Indianapolis and look at all the Christmas lights.  This is the Monument Circle in the heart of Indianapolis.  It has a red brick street that circles around this monument and at Christmas time the entire Circle is decorated with lights, horse drawn carriages, and an assortment of other Christmas decorations.  There are people buzzing around, shopping at the local shops, satisfying the sweet tooth at the South Bend Chocolate Factory store, warming up with a nice cup of Starbucks, or leaving the local Symphony headed to a nice dinner for two.

This has not changed at all since I was a child, except for the fact that she needs a good limestone cleaning and maybe a gentle face lift.  As we were taking in all the sites, they were just as I remembered from long ago.  However the the people looked slightly different.  I wasn't looking up at everything as I did when I was a child.  It wasn't until I stood directly under this monument that I realized. . . ."This is why everything looks so much bigger when we are younger!"  I know a silly epiphany, but it is the epiphany I had.  I have always loved being "downtown", and this day was no different (except that is was FREEZING!).