I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 5 year old again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it is a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples in a pond 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 watch the ants march up its trunk. I want to run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to go fishing and care more about catching the minnows along the shore than the big bass in the lake. I want to think the world is fair. I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all I knew about were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes. When I didn't know what I know now. When all I knew was to be happy because I was blissfully unaware of all the things that should make me worried. I want to think that a quarter is worth more than a dollar bill because it is prettier and weighs more. I want to think 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 in life again. I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, dreams, the imagination, the Tooth Fairy, a kiss that makes a boo-boo go away, making angels in the snow, and that my dad and G-d are the strongest people in the world. So......here's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit cards and the bills, my 401K statements, my stocks and bonds, my collections, my insurance premiums, my job, my house and the payments, my e-mail address, pager, cell phone, computer, and watch. I am officially resigning from adulthood. And if you want to discuss this with me further, you'll have to catch me
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~Your Higher Power has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
YES! YES! YES! In the Bible it often speaks of 'becoming.....like children'.......in other words have faith and trust with all the naivity and innoncence of a child. Beautiful reminder that all the riches, beautiful clothes, ect. is far from what makes the heart truly happy.
Wow! What a great idea. Only problem for me is I never got to be a "kid". Had household responsibilities and my main career goal was to cause no more grief, pain or harm to my mother, as my older sister had that job 10 fold!
A 9 yr old should be concerned about a spelling test, not worrying all day that the laundry she'd hung on the line at 6am would be dry and that the neighborhood dogs had not mangled it! by the time she got home from school.
Today, I believe that is why my own child is so full of I Self & Me (ism)! I went the extra mile to make sure he had NO responsibilities and his job was to just be a kid! Overkill I know, now!
One day at the time.........
(((hugaroonies))) girlfriend.
~ Jen
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
That is so cute!!!!! My hubby and I got to act like kids yesterday while carving pumpkins! Sad, the kids werent interested or had to work....Getting quiet around here!!!! BOOOOOO!
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have. "
