IJMC - I Don't Wanna Grow Up!!!!

Welcome to my life. I understand why so many resist growing up. We have=20
seen what awaits us and we are not sure we like it. Ok, honestly, we know=
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we do not like it. I have seen adulthood and I want to retreat. Wrong=20
answer, I know, but that is the gut instinct. Instead, I hunker down, and=
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prepare to battle this screwed up world some more. Wars fought with=20
"Smile on a Stick" and Oreo cookies and pretty yellow roses. Things to=20
make people smile, not stories of wartorn countries and petty violence.=20
Neighborly love, not fear which leads to locked doors and hearts. If you=20
ever do anything for me, for these messages you read, well, make someone=20
smile, just once at least. Thanks.                                  -dave





I DON'T WANNA GROW UP!!!!!

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have
decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of a 6 year old again.=
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I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.=20

I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples with
rocks.=20

I want to think M&Ms are better than money, because you can eat them.=20

I want to play kickball during recess and paint with watercolors in art.=20
Learning math and spelling was really an adventure.=20

I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my
friends on a hot summer's day.=20

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.=20

When all you knew was to be happy because you didn't know all the things
that should make you worried and upset.=20

I want to think that the world is fair. That everyone in it is honest and
good.=20

I want to believe that anything is possible.=20

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.=20

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.=20

I learned of a world where children know how to kill...and do.=20

What happened to the time when we thought that everyone would live
forever, because we didn't grasp the concept of death? =A0When we thought
the worst thing in the world was if someone took the jump rope from you or
picked you last for kickball?=20

I want to be oblivious to the complexity of life and be overly excited by
little things once again.=20

I want to return to the days when reading was fun and music was clean.=20

When television was used to report the news or for family entertainment
and not to promote sex, violence and deceit.=20

I remember being naive and thinking that everyone was happy because I was.=
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I would walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my toes and
the prettiest seashell I could find.=20

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.=20

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.=20

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.=20

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.=20

=09I want to be 6 again.

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It doesn't matter how else you view the universe, if you can maintain some
semblance of a sense of humor when the chips are down, somehow you will=20
be ok.

~~~a gypsy wisewomon~~~