One Day We All Grow Up!

Into what? Bahahaha! Lord if one more person says that to me, I will surely invite them to cross the line. BAM! Again, I ask you, WHO? Who made these rules that offer nothing but failure? Or sure, some of you are leading exemplary lives of adulthood. Maybe if no one pounded the idea into my head, my head would be straight.

I can't remember if I read this in a fairy tale, no I believe it was told to me by an adult:

         " One day, we all have to grow up!"

See, here's my problem, I've actually never met one yet, an adult, not one that I like anyway. Have you ever noticed that adults make the rules. And then like children, break the rules. We break the rules that we have set for our children and then justify it. What a crock of shit! As adults, we throw tantrums when things don't go our way!

We whisper secrets with our friends. Or in this day and age, we text our secrets to one another. We live for comfort when we can find it, and then like children, we hope against all logic, against all our experiences:
WE HOPE! Like children hoping for a snow day in the middle of Arizona, we hope!

We play games and try to convince our friends to play these games with us. But not all adults like to play games, but have you ever noticed the ones who do play; play to win? As we grow up, the games don't change just the strategies! We pretend to be well so our families don't worry. We lie to our loved ones about where we have been or where we are going. We invent stories as to hide the truth or to cover up our failures.
Oh yes, let me grow up right now, because I want to live my life like this! 

I recently had a run in with an "adult". So what if this adult was married to the adult that I just happened to be receiving "benefits" from. Anyway, this adult had forgotten the golden rule of childhood. I did not want her husband, I did not want her life or her house, hell I didn't even want to live in her state! But the rule she forgot, which I so pleasantly reminded her was this: "Jeez, don't you know how to share?" Sharing. We are taught this at an early age...sharing is caring.

Grow up?? Never. Why is it that men can fall back on the Peter Pan syndrome, while women must be an adult from the womb! My message today is this: I have 20 days to a fresh start, does that mean that I will miraculously grow up? Become responsible~become a productive citizen of society! I believe with all my heart that if I can lay my head down every night and know that I did no harm directly or indirectly, then I am as about as adult and grown up as I am going to get.

" I am not a child, and neither are you, unless of course I am wrong, in which case, welcome to the world, little baby, and congratulations on learning to be a grown up so early in life." The Penultimate Peril, Lemony Snicket