"We don't quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing."

She always wanted to grow up; she thought that her siblings were immature because they never stopped talking about their play world, Narnia. She thought that to grow up, one had to forsake all those childish things like going to the park and reading fairy stories and talking about mythical lands.

She didn't know the secret to growing up, truly growing up, is that to grow the right way, one had to treasure all those lovely memories, remember them for the grey, sad, lonely days when you couldn't do them anymore or when life tried to press its strife and burdensome cares upon you.

She was confused because everyone else seemed to have this vibrancy about them, this aura, while she had nothing. There were times when she felt that even her parents unknowingly joined in the "Narnia Game" as she called this time when her siblings and cousin, his friend and the Professor all talked about their silly make-believe world.

She asked the professor one evening, when he was going out the door, why he kept encouraging her family. He replied with a bit of wisdom that confused her;

"We don't quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing. You see my dear, when we stop believing, something inside us dies, something good. To keep "playing" as you call it, keeps that little flame alive." He smiled, doffed his hat to her, and trotted down the steps and out the gate, whistling a merry tune as he went.

She never understood what he meant until they weren't there to ask about it. When the grave marker asked what should be inscribed on the old professor's stone, as she was the sole survivor of the Pevensie family, and everything was left to her by Kirke, she told the man;

"We don't quit playing because we grow old; we grow old because we quit playing."

She finally understood.

Quote drabbles I thought up while I was sitting staring at the cursor on my Microsoft word. I'll take suggestions for Drabble quotes if you know any that you would like. I am open to suggestions. Tell me what you think!

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