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 footpath with rocks.

I want to think M&Ms

are better

than money because you can eat them.

I want to lie under a big gum tree and

run a cold drink stand with my friends

on a hotsummer's day.

I want to return to a time when life

was simple, when all you knew were colours,

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's 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 snowmen in the snow.

So . . . here's my cheque book and my car keys,

my credit cards and my bank 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."