Categories: just-life
Date: 03 January 2006 15:44:45
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responcibilities of an eight year-old again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
I awnt to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle nd make a sidewalk with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them, I want to lie under a big oak tree and play doctors and nurses with my friends on a hot summer's day. I want to return to a time when life was simple; when all I knew were colours, multiplication tables and nursery rhymes, and it didn't bother me because I didn't know what I didn't know and I didn't care.
All I knew was to be happy because I was blissfully unaware of all the things that should make me worry or upset.
I want to think the world is fair, that everyone is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is possilbe. I want to 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, 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 chequebook and my car keys and my mobile phone. 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!!!!"
Now, normally I don't get this cynical till at least two weeks into the new year, however, I've put a special effort into 2006 and have set a new record.
I will admit, I have no idea why I've such a downer for 2006, especially so soon into it. But I came up with three possible reasons.
1)It's a form of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) what with the end of the Christmas Season and the crappy weather, and so I'm just feeling that bit depressed and so I'm getting grumpy.
2)As we're only three days in, it could just be that the 31st/1st were really good, whereas the 2nd and then today haven't been and so if I mearly wait a couple of more days something better will happen and all will be well again. Of course, if it carries on I so don't want to get to February
3)Cause in three out of the last four nights I've managed four or less hours sleep I could just be cranky.
There's always the chance that it could be something else....... but why complicate things???