Need help for a personal essay?

Okay so I'm supposed to write a personal essay for my English class. The prompt states that I should take an experience (probably from earlier years) and "zoom out" to a bigger picture. I'm thinking about relating the experiences in my neighborhood from childhood...e.g. lemonade stands, capture the flag, and other things, to a bigger picture, but I'm not sure what that might be. I thought about doing something like "when you're younger you want to be older and when you're older you want to be younger", but that's kind of cliché. I could talk about growing up, but I need a narrowed and unique viewpoint. Any advice?