I resign as an adult
Posted: 1/17/2001 4:19:54 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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To Whom It May Concern:

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an ADULT. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 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 play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art. I want to lie under a big Oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summers day.

I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all you knew were colors, addition tables and simple nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care. When all you knew was to be happy because you didn't know all the things that should make you worried and upset. I want to think that the world is fair. That everyone in it is honest and good. I want to believe that anything is possible.

Somewhere in my youth...I matured and I learned too much. I learned of nuclear weapons, war, prejudice, starvation and abused children. I learned of lies, unhappy marriages, suffering, illness, pain and death. I learned of a world where men left their families to go and fight for our country, and returned only to end up living on the streets...begging for their next meal. I learned of a world where children knew how to kill...and did!!

What happened to the time when we thought that everyone would live forever, because we didn't grasp the concept of death? When we thought the worst thing in the world was if someone took the jump rope from you or picked you last for kickball? I want to be oblivious to the complexity of life and be overly excited by little things once again. I want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean. When television was used to report the news or for family entertainment and not to promote sex, violence and deceit.

I remember being naive and thinking that everyone was happy because I was. I would walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my toes and the prettiest seashell I could find. I would spend my afternoons climbing trees and riding my bike. I didn't worry about time, bills or where I was going to find the money to fix my car. I used to wonder what I was going to do or be when I grew up, not worry about what I'll do if this doesn't work out.

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. I want to be 8 again.

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I resign as an adult
Posted: 1/17/2001 4:19:54 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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Ok, look the original author really has things completely backwards as I see it. I'm sure it's the optimist in me making me type this right now! The basic feeling I got from the article is that the author can't handle responsibility.

The way I think of it is that as we grow older, we are given a wonderful chance to take our childhood consciousness with us into adulthood to make it bloom and develop into what our childhood was, multiplied by the ever-expanding knowledge that we gain as adults to make a sweet sappy syrup to feed our brains!

so I can't really understand why someone would make such a depressing sounding posting! I completely disagree, Adulthood is a chance to make even more dreams come true. Take that feeling of the grass inbetween your toes and experience it EVERY DAY! You can do it right now! (Ok, maybe not in Canada... the snow is completely obliterating all sight of grass, but if you like to feel snow between your toes, go to it!)

-Pete
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I resign as an adult
Posted: 1/17/2001 4:19:54 PM
By: Comfortably Anonymous
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To Whom It May Concern:

I am hereby officially tendering my acceptance into Adulthood. I have decided that I no longer wish to be a passive element in the world. I have decided that I can, and will make a difference around me.

I am glad to understand the basic concept of keeping my body healthy. Knowing that McDonald's is not the greatest source of food, I keep my diet balanced and healthy. As a result, I think clearer and have more energy.

I keep my life simple, yet fun. I know the types of sounds, colors, and shapes that make other people happy. I use them together to make stories, music, and picture that cause people to think, smile, or cry. I'm glad that I understand now how the bitter things that people say to each other should not be taken to heart. That there is no need to start a fight, or be hurt when somebody gets emotional.

It is good that I understand that the world is not filled with people like me, people who wish for things to be a better place. I can be wary of danger, and keep myself protected from the people who look for trouble, or have a low regard for life. I'm happy because now I understand, and have the power to reach out into other people's lives and change them forever. I no longer have no understanding of the minds behind the eyes of the people I see. I can love, share, or even hurt when hurting needs to be done. Being able to help those around is the greatest gift I've ever learned.

I know my limitations, but I do not regret them. I work with them and use them as strengths. Where before, as a child I did not see my limits and I would seek paths in life that lead nowhere. Now, the mist has cleared and I can see where I'm going (better).

Somewhere in my youth...I changed, and I grew. I became bitter because I knew too much, and I lashed out at the system that thought me, and the parents who were supposed to protect me but were powerless to do so. I saw many things that brought tears to my eyes. With sad words perched upon the edges of my lips, stuck in limbo between the past and the present.

Death became a reality, something I would soon face. It even became something I wished for, from time to time. Where were the days when Death was just a word, right?

Somewhere in my youth...I changed again. The puzzle pieces stayed the same, but I began to look at them differently. I learned to smile again, and to see that the system did not even know that I existed. How could I have been so angry at something that is just as benign as a tree or a rock. Just as I hated the rock I tripped over as a child, and the system that befouled me as a young mind, I now look at both and smile.

My parents, those ones who betrayed me and could not protect me from reality? I saw them standing back there waiting for me. I thought for sure they would have left by now, long angry at their son who had rejected them years ago. No, they stand like they always have, waiting for me to return. Ready to be a friend again.

The world is changing around me, some of us are caught up in the wrong things, and some of us have our heads screwed on right. This is how it has always been, and always will be. It is times like this when I raise my tea cup to the sun, watching the light shine through on my face in Earl Gray tones. I smile and I am thankful for the nasty, dirty world I live in. Because just around every corner there is a view that would knock your socks off. Just around every corner there are people who are the same as you, happy, troubled sometimes, caring, intelligent.

I am glad that now I can find these people, and begin life all over again. Maybe we'll have a lemonaide stand set up for you, afterall, we are never truly adults. That is just a myth. :)

Author, Yours Truly

.:.
Ioa Petra'ka


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