My Resignation
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My Resignation
RESIGNATION
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 McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and 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 run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.
All you knew was to be happy 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 to 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's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. 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."
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 McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and 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 run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple, when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.
All you knew was to be happy 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 to 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's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. 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."
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Wilmington, NC
Posts: 932
Cats - I hope you don't mind but I'm going to join you in retirement. I'm tired of being a grown up and I'm tired of taking care of everybody. I also want to be young and carefree.
Can you come out to play?
Can you come out to play?
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posts: 471
Cats - what a great post.
I mentor a 9-year old and for 4 hours every week I get to forget my niece (addict) and be 9 again.
I do all those things and more, we make doll clothes and sew pillows, watch movies and bake cakes. We walk the dogs and swim in the creek and she tell me all about what makes her happy and worries her and these are things I CAN help with.
thanks for a the smile you brought to my face to day - I needed it.
I mentor a 9-year old and for 4 hours every week I get to forget my niece (addict) and be 9 again.
I do all those things and more, we make doll clothes and sew pillows, watch movies and bake cakes. We walk the dogs and swim in the creek and she tell me all about what makes her happy and worries her and these are things I CAN help with.
thanks for a the smile you brought to my face to day - I needed it.
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: a better place
Posts: 4,047
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 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.
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 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.
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," and especially more work to do than there are hours in a day, working my program has helped me so to live life simply and to believe in the good in people, laughter, light and hope. For every negative I see, I now see 10 positives and that is the most amazing thing possible. Sometimes that means I have to turn off the outside world...go days without watching the news, never, ever turn on talk radio made to get ones blood boiling and walk away from gossip, but I think for me that is a big part of self care.
I am also a firm believer in the power of giggles. I think the ability to get the giggles and laugh in the face of adversity, truly laugh...from the belly and to the point of tears, gives one the power to conquer the world
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Atlanta
Posts: 31,179
I love it!!
I am lucky enough to work in a restaurant where kids come in a lot. They remind me what's really important in life (milkshakes!!) and always bring a smile to my face and a skip in my step.
Hugs and prayers!
Amy
I am lucky enough to work in a restaurant where kids come in a lot. They remind me what's really important in life (milkshakes!!) and always bring a smile to my face and a skip in my step.
Hugs and prayers!
Amy
rozied
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: PA, USA
Posts: 1,292
Playmate come out and play with me
Bring out your dolly three, climb up my apple tree!!!
It would be nice to be a kid again but despite all the responsibility I like being an adult!
To take a few hours off every so often, to be like a kid again is always fun.
Bring out your dolly three, climb up my apple tree!!!
It would be nice to be a kid again but despite all the responsibility I like being an adult!
To take a few hours off every so often, to be like a kid again is always fun.
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: on top of the hill
Posts: 197
Hey Cats,
Can I come?? After we do the things you've suggested, lets go fly kites!! And make a cool sand castle, go swimming until our skin has wrinkles.Then maybe we can make ice cream cones...I used to love a combo of lime sherbet and chocolate ice cream when I was a kid....we discovered this because we only had a little of each. Of course, it's the law that ice cream has to be eaten sitting in a tree.... Sounds great to me, and I am soooooooo ready! Thanks for a great post!
Can I come?? After we do the things you've suggested, lets go fly kites!! And make a cool sand castle, go swimming until our skin has wrinkles.Then maybe we can make ice cream cones...I used to love a combo of lime sherbet and chocolate ice cream when I was a kid....we discovered this because we only had a little of each. Of course, it's the law that ice cream has to be eaten sitting in a tree.... Sounds great to me, and I am soooooooo ready! Thanks for a great post!
Rest peacefully Sonny Boy
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Florida, Tennessee
Posts: 840
OK, I'm greedy, I want both worlds! I want to be the emancipated 8 year old, with a blackbelt and a special law that allows me to use that 40lk to support myself. Wait a second, I don't have a 40lk so maybe Cats will trade me hers for my marbles? (-: Wait, darn it, I don't even have any marbles. Shoot. At least giggles are free, I can load up on those with this group. LOL
B
P.S. Every time I get down about all the nasty uncaring people in this world, all I have to do is come here and I see all the wonderful, kind hearted people that I can't see in my day to day life.
Hugs
B
P.S. Every time I get down about all the nasty uncaring people in this world, all I have to do is come here and I see all the wonderful, kind hearted people that I can't see in my day to day life.
Hugs
Nature Girl
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: By The Lake
Posts: 60,328
I too want to be a kid again...playing on the beach, picking up a little lizard frog and putting it back because it won't fit in my pocket, eating apple pie with all the ice cream I want and never worrying about calories or nutrition, wearing a t-shirt and shorts and hiking through the woods, playing in a kayak and splashing my friend in hers....wait a minute, I AM a kid (okay maybe an old one) and just did all that this week on my vacation to visit Mooselips 
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Ontario Canada
Posts: 78
You scared the s**t out of me... I saw "My Resignation" posted by you and thought you were leaving as a forum leader... not a nice thing to do to a girl!!
That being said... great post.
Can I come too?
Amy
That being said... great post.
Can I come too?
Amy
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