The standstill

 What did you see in your dreams, he asked his 2 year old son?

A sheep, he answered, like always.

The winter is coming to an end, the sun rises quite early these days and soon there will be day light savings. The memories of deep winter in the pandemic lockdown is getting blurred with the summer which was also spent in this lockdown. Everything seems to be blurred into a standstill. They used to go to the neighbourhood farm to see sheep during the summer months. For a long time now, he keeps telling him that the farm is shut and sheep are all sleeping and that they would go again once summer is back. For a two year old who has never had ice cream, this summer is much awaited, he will have his first ice cream and he will have a new bubble making machine which he briefly experienced last summer. He will also be able to get back to seeing sheep, but thats one thing he may have already found a way not to wait for. He is meeting them every night in his dreams.

Are you sure it was a sheep again this time?

Yes!

He thinks, he probably doesn't understand what a dream means yet. That thought branches out to a google query, when do kinds start dreaming. Well things change around 3 years, even though they have been experiencing dreams since the age of 1 or even less. Things will change this summer hopefully once the lockdowns get over...it seems kids have been waiting to grow, their imaginations seem to rely only on imaginations for now.