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Resignation from adulthood


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A joke a friend sent me long ago. Once again with old friends that author is unknown

 

I hereby tender 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, but 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 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 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 and you have cooties!"

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You got me fair and square, I'll have to catch someone to give the cooties to.

 

How long is long enough?, if someone is old and decrepit, if they are in really bad shape and that could be at 9 or 90, should we want them to stay around, to remain a human for as long as possible, to never give up?

 

If someone is chipper and in reasonable good health, can get around on their own or at least without a great amount of effort. Let them choose their departure, isn't that the way it should be? In any case, we will be joining them and once we do, we'll think that no time had passed at all, it will seem like an instant, in fact the length of a human life, no matter how long someone manages to live, will, once we are gone, once we no longer can or no longer want to support our bodies, to keep them alive, it will have been a good experience, one of great love.

 

No, there has to be a place when it's time enough, only problem, the biggest problem, most humans, or maybe I should say a large portion of humans are taught when they are children, when they are equivalent to unformatted hard drives, taught that when someone dies, it's bad when in fact that isn't always the case. We should teach them dignity with death, that when they become grown, that it is totally natural to come to a point when their energy no longer can or no longer wants to support a large sack of flesh. That we can die and it's natural, every human that has ever existed and every human that will ever be will die. So why should we be sad from a natural act, why isn't mother nature honored more? Why, why?

 

Smile, it releases endorphins.

 

Rod

 

Who has the cooties?

 

 

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Michael,

 

This is a cute reminder of how nice it was being free of stress and responsibility. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

 

Jean

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