Night after night, as was often the case, she'd lean down and push my long hair out of the 1 , then kiss my forehead．
I don't remember when it first started 2 me．But it did．Finally one night, I shouted out at her,“Don't do that any more-your hands are too 3 !”She didn't say anything in reply．But never again did my mother 4 my day with that familiar 5 of her love．
With the years passing, my thoughts 6 to that night, when I missed my mother's hands, missed her goodnight 7 on my forehead．Sometimes the incident seemed very 8 , while sometimes far away．But always it was hidden in the back of my 9 ．Now Mom is in her seventies, and those hands that I 10 thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my 11 ．And now my own children are grown and gone．One thanksgiving Eve, 12 I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a 13 hand hesitantly run across my face to 14 the hair from my forehead．Then a kiss, ever so 15 , touched my brow．
In my memory, for the thousandth time, I recalled the night and my young voice 16 ．“Don't do that any more-your hands are too rough!” 17 , I caught Mom's hand in hand, saying how 18 I was for that night．I thought she'd remember, as I did．But Mom didn't know 19 I was talking about．She had forgotten, and forgiven long ago．
That night, I fell asleep with a new 20 for my gentle mother and her caring hands．And the guilt that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found．
We’ve heard it before－we’ve heard it on the news, from teachers, from parents－children and teenagers today are growing up too fast．There are not too many people that will 1 with that statement．Teenagers are faced with serious problems and decisions at an early 2 ．In fact most teenagers’ daily schedules are as 3 as those of an adult’s．
I have been working since I was thirteen, and always in 4 in which I was working with adults．I have had to learn to think and 5 like an adult to be taken seriously．So, I count myself as one who has grown up too fast．I just graduated from high school, and have recently spent some time reflecting(反思)on the 6 eighteen years-thinking about myself, what I have gained, and what 7 I have yet to achieve．
We are expected to work hard, get excellent 8 , be in a good relationship, and know what we want to do 9 ．The list goes on and on．But the 10 is clear：We live in a society today that is 11 our childhood．We no longer have many years to be careless and fancy-free．We are expected to 12 the strict school rules and to excel(擅长)in everything we do．I’ve known these things for a long time, and knew that they 13 me．But, I never really admitted it until last night, when I learned a 14 lesson, taught to me by my boss where I work．We had finished a job at a remote site．It was about 11∶30 at nig-ht, and we had 15 to his house．We were talking about the 16 he had been making to his home．One of the things he said was “I 17 my basketball hoop(篮圈)．” Then he threw a basketball to me．
I hadn’t 18 a basketball in five years．
We proceeded to shoot hoops for about 40 minutes．Both of us were terribly bad at it, but we spent the whole time 19 away like children．Then I realized something：I am still a child．Oh, the law says I’m an adult．But, we are still really and truly children．We all need to have 20 once in a while．
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