"Happy" new year?

First post in 2008, and it is plagiarized. Picked up from somewhere on the net. Flicked, though not with disdain. By the way, I don't consider this sort of stealing unethical. Neither of us are making money out of this, and my copying their data - for lack of a better way to describe it - is not harming any of us. I think this is what the professor meant when he talked about non-rival consumption good.

Well, I am getting carried away... Here's the sound bite.

Once upon a time,
summer was a fair.
Mud didn't kill you, and no one really cared.
Now we're all grown up.
All controlling, controlled and softer.
Is this what they meant when they said
Happily ever after?

Evokes so many different feelings at the same time, and at quite a few different levels of thought. Summer is back in the air, and I keep going back to the dusty May afternoons in the summer vacations while I was still a kid. Roaming about in the sun, chasing dust devils, not getting killed by the mud, not having a care in the world...

All the heat and harshness is gone now. Comfort can be stifling, suffocating. I know that this is not the "happily" i am looking for, and I just hope that this is not "ever after".