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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.
I want to go to a fast food
place, 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 that small
candies 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 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 think a quarter
is worth more than a dollar bill 'cause it's prettier
and weighs more.
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 return to a time when life was simple. When
all I knew were colors, addition tables, and nursery
rhymes. When I didn't know what I know now.
I want to believe that the
world is fair.
I want to believe 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 naively think that everyone else is happy
because I'm happy.
I want to again be able to
walk on the beach and only think of the sand between my
toes, and the prettiest seashell I can find.
I would again like to spend
my afternoons climbing trees and riding my bike.
I wouldn't worry about
time, bills, or where I was going to find the money to
fix my car.
I would wonder what I would
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.....yeah.....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 the loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the
power of smiles, hugs, a kind word, truth, dreams,
peace, justice, love, the imagination, mankind, Santa,
the Tooth Fairy, a kiss that makes a boo boo go away,
making angels in the snow, and that my parents are the
strongest and smartest people in the world.
I want to be 6 again.
So...here's my checkbook
and my car keys, my credit cards and the bills too, my
401K statements, my stocks & bonds, my collections, my
insurance premiums, my job, my house and the payments
too, my e-mail address, pager, cell phone, computer, and
watch.
And if you want to discuss this with me further, you'll
have to catch me first 'cause.....
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Tag!
... You're it!!!
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