Resignation
Tied up heavily today with business and doctors, so no time for a proper post! The following came through off the Internet and I think it speaks volumes about what’s missing in our harried, adult lives! Food for thought…
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. And if you want to discuss this further, you’ll have to catch me first, cause…
…”Tag! You’re it.”
One Response to “Resignation”
Ahhh, the simple life…
I wonder, is it a curse to grow up, a one way street, never able to go back again?
Or have we just not invented the proper technologies (or mental attitudes) to give adults a chance to become 8 again?
Are computers to blame? They promised to make life easier. It seems perhaps they actually made it worse.
Or is it a fact of growing old? Kids seem to cope well with any new technology. It’s the old folks who tend to feel overwhelmed.
And finally: would booze help?
It seems to get some people back to being 8 again (or even younger).