RESIGNING FROM ADULTHOOD

(I'm sure that you have felt this way lately!)

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 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."