I am hereby
officially tendering my resignation as
an adult. I have decided I want 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&M's 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.
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!"
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© 2006, Jace Carlton. All International Rights Reserved.
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