Seems like a good idea... sometimes... but I guess that is why we do what
we do with our little "friends"... (obligatory lbc content :^)
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> A bit of summer Friday rumination... don't know who wrote it.
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I hereby officially tender 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
ripples 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 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, > imagination, humankind, 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. And if you
want to > discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause, "Tag!
You're > it!"
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