I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again. I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them. I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset. I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again. I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow. So . . . here's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood. <unknown>
Amen! Well written. Though I would personally like to go back to about age 16 or so. My folks paid all the bills, I had a part time job paid me $150 a week, and that $150 was more than any paycheck I"ve had since.
I second the motion! If kids only knew what was in store for them, then they would stop trying so hard to be grown up! Being an adult is just no fun anymore! Calmest_LA
Ohno- I was having a really rotten day and that just made me put a few things into perspective. Thank you.
Everybody wishes they could do that, but we still get up everyday and slug it out. Those of us who have kids don't have the luxury of being self-absorbed children anymore. I feel like you do though, boy i wish I could go back.
OhNo, I hate the "real world" too...Where are my summer vacations? recess after lunch? ) I won't grow up...I don't wanna go to school. I want some MAGIC PIXIE DUST! -Peace, Dave
Look at you guys/gals! You don't know what your saying. YES! We all wish we could get a do-over every once in a while. You might think it was easier when you were younger, but you were looking at it from a perspective of being young. Now that your older, you look at things as if you really did have it easier back then. The $150 a week paycheck was good, but did you not work hard for it? The nights you probably spent working instead of sleeping or preparing for tests or something else.. Life is just as hard for a child as an adult. Except that you get a easier ride until your legal age of 18 or thereabouts (for me it was 16). You might have had good childhoods, but think about it for a moment. You wanted to be grown up because you though things were worse than they really were. Now that your an adult you think things are so bad that you want to be a child again. Life isn't easy. It's what we make of it. If I had spent more time working as a child, I might have been in an even better position than I am in today. Sure, adult life has it's drawbacks. But when your a child, you have to worry about getting older and having to deal with things. When your an adult then only thing you have to worry about is yourself/family and death.
