Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

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 ripples 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 the whole summer off.

I want to return to a time when life was simple. When all I knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that 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 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 play baseball in a vacant lot, without uniforms, leagues, or anything except a wood bat, an old glove, a scruffy, grass stained baseball and some kids with the knees worn out of their jeans.

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."

TH Loc: minnesota

I did that in 1967. Course I had a little help. It was fun, but expensive.

TH

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Lucky person.

NMGal Loc: NE NM

Amen!

Flying Three Loc: Berthoud, CO

We can always think like a child and act like a responsible adult. It would change the complexion of our society and the world a lot. Let's do it!!!

Fiddlingbill Loc: Mass.

I would either like to find a time machine. Or I would like to find Clarence from it's a wonderful life. And come back where no one knows me. Or send me back to being a teenager again. And know what I know now. Ahhhhhh! Dreams to be young again.

rdgreenwood Loc: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Sigh....

cedymock Loc: Irmo, South Carolina

One part of the equation you seemed to forget 8 year olds don't have sex.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

I want my Mom and Dad

SteveR Loc: Michigan

I thought of that, but 8 year olds don't even know about it, at least back in our day.

Geezer Bill Loc: San Diego County, CA

Could it possibly be that the sex drive causes all our problems??

cedymock Loc: Irmo, South Carolina

Thinking at least 97%!

couch coyote Loc: northern Illinois

What an idyllic mental picture! I, too, don't want to know what I know now. Count me in!

Ourspolair

You have to grow old, but you can't be forced to grow up! "Pack up all my cares and woe, here I go..."
Keep on thinking outside of the box (there is a box?)
Stay well and hang in there - all of this nonsense has to end eventually.

TylerDurdensReel Loc: Fresno Ca.

1926 was a long time ago. How and where did you learn that tune?