Today I hereby declare you as a working adult….
When I was a kid, Peter Pan was one of my favorite cartoons TV show. It was just so fun to imagine myself flying in the sky, playing around without parents telling you what to do, fighting with a bad guy like captain Hook, and of course win the battle in the end of the day. It was just like every child dream I suppose and even though it was not mentioned directly, but they did play a role as a family. Peter as the father, Wendy as the mother, and the rest as the son. It was just like happens in your childhood, wasn’t it? When your friends or even you acted as marriage couple and formed a family, but of course without considering any consequences and responsibilities of being one.
Now, when I am very near to become completely a working adult, I appreciate Peter Pan story even more. It was more than just a children story, but it was probably, the battle that has to be faced by everyone as they are growing up to become an adult. Peter Pan story is about the refusal of becoming an adult. Refusal of all the responsibilities that have to be taken as an adult such as earn money for living, need to pay for the monthly bill, need to settle down, buying a house, buying a car, form a family and many other things that even only think about it can make my head crash. Well, by accident I find this writing about resigning of become an adult. I found it in many websites, so the original author is unknown:
Tendering My 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 is a four star restaurant. I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle, skid rocks across the mill pond and make a sidewalk with rocks. I want to roller skate and play ball in the street, play ‘Rover Red Rover’, ‘Hide and Seek’ and ride my iron wheel wagon down the hill.
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 I knew were colors, most of my multiplication tables, and a few nursery rhymes.All I knew was to be happy and I was blissfully unaware of all the things that should make me worried or upset. I want to sleep in a tent in the back yard without worry or fear. I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good. I want to believe 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’s bills, gossip, illness, and the loss of loved ones.I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, kind words, truth, justice, peace, dreams, imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow. So here is my check book and my car keys, my credit card bills and all my 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!See Later… Alligator
Well, interesting. Fastest, in the next six months I’ll be officially registered as a working adult. So should I resign? I don’t know. But I realize that I need to enjoy the next six months to the fullest. That is for sure.
