That evening, I showed him the object.
"Can you tell me what this is?"
He smiled immediately.
"Oh... that's just sidewalk chalk."
Apparently, he and his friends had spent the weekend decorating the driveway with colorful drawings before one piece accidentally ended up inside his backpack.
When he unpacked his school supplies, the chalk rolled under the desk where I later found it.
Just like that, my worries disappeared.
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A Trip Down Memory Lane
His answer instantly transported me back to my own childhood.
Long before phones and tablets occupied every spare minute, neighborhood sidewalks became giant canvases.
We spent entire afternoons drawing:
- Hopscotch games
- Flowers
- Race tracks
- Cartoon characters
- Imaginary neighborhoods
