I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult.I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8-year old again.I want to go to McDonalds and think that its an four star restaurant.I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make ripples 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 run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer day.I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables and nursery rhymesBut that did not bother you because you did not know what you did not know and you did not care.All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.I want to think the world is fair.
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 live simple again.I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news.
how ot 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.So here is my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card and all my responsibility.
I am officially resigning from adulthood.
And if you want to discuss this further... you will have to catch me first, cause "Tag! You are it."
*******************************************EXTRACT FROM "WALKING BEARFOOT" 2002 BY KATHARINA & MARINA
"Living", being such a huge word is way too often mixed up with "Existing", for as growing old, one is in constant danger to lose the innateness to see the essential things with one's heart, as they are invisible to one's eyes.
Getting more and more wrapped up like a mummy by the power of habit and the pressure of having to be up to the norm society imposes on one, one becomes more and more emotionally immovable and apathetic to the things that are really significant in life.A sad and frightening example for what can happen when the reason drowns the fantasy is the pitiable millipede, ...
...who could dance so wonderfully with his thousand feet, that every time he danced, all the animals of the forest came to see him. They were all deeply impressed by his art. Only one animal did not like the millipede's dance at all: the toad.
"How can I only manage to stop the millipede from dancing?", she thought to herself, after all she could not simply tell him, that she did not like his dancing, nor could she claim that she was a better dancer, for nobody would have believed that. So finally she cooked up a devilish plan. She sat down and wrote a letter to the millipede: "Oh, incomparable millipede..", she wrote "..I am a devoted admirer of your selected art and I would die to know, how you proceed when you dance? Do you start lift your left leg number 228 first and then your right leg number 59? Or do you start your dance by lifting right leg number 26 and after that number 499? I am anxiously waiting for your answer. With kind regards, yours the toad."
As the millipede received this letter, he, for the first time in his life, thought over what he actually did when he danced. Which leg did he move first and which one came after that, and so on. He simply couldn't tell. The more he racked his brains over that question, the more confused he became.
And so the toad had finally gained her end, for thinking drowned the, for the dance so essential, spontaneity and unaffectedness and the animals in that forest could never ever enjoy the millipede's unique art again.Now one may say that what happened to this tiny, seemingly unimportant animal is none of his business, for there are so many way more important things in this world to care about. Yet one may survey the fact that the same cruel game, played to the millipede, is played day by day to many of our kind as well, though the toads are quick-change artists and can take any kind of shape. In the twinkling of an eye and without much display, they may steal away the godsend ability of imagination and dreams, which provides us the possibility to escape at least spiritually from the sometimes so hard to bear reality, yet at the best encourages us to realize our dreams and live them…
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